Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Generally,
faculty members are on the academic year schedule, and administrative officers
are on the twelve-months' schedule.
(B)
Although salary
adjustments may be considered at any necessary time, the deans, after
conferences with their department chairs, normally review and recommend changes
in salaries in the spring so that the president's recommendations may be
presented to the board during the spring semester and salary changes can go
into effect at the beginning of the academic year.
(C)
Department
chairs, school directors, or deans in colleges without departments, shall
conduct an annual evaluation of each faculty member as required by paragraph
(B) of rule 3359-20-02 of the Administrative Code.
(D)
Salary
adjustments shall be based at least in part on merit.
(1)
Annual
evaluations shall serve as the basis for determining merit.
(2)
Academic units
may use information from more than one year of annual evaluations in
determining salary adjustments.
(E)
Department chairs
or school directors and deans shall recommend faculty salary adjustments based
upon merit procedures and criteria as required by paragraph (I) of this
rule.
(F)
For the purposes of establishing procedures and
criteria for annual evaluation and merit, an academic unit is defined as
follows:
(1)
A
department or school where faculty hold a primary appointment.
(2)
A college where
faculty hold a primary appointment.
(3)
Faculty in
colleges with departments or schools may choose to act as a faculty of the
whole and establish procedures and criteria that govern that college as a
whole.
(G)
"Robert's Rules of Order," in the most recent edition,
shall be accepted as the authority on all questions of parliamentary procedure
not determined by the university rules as defined in the Ohio Administrative
Code. In any conflict between the Ohio Administrative Code and "Robert's Rules
of Order," the Ohio Administrative Code takes precedence.
(H)
Each academic
unit shall establish procedures and criteria for annual evaluations.
(1)
Annual evaluation
procedures and criteria shall be established in writing by the academic unit
faculty in consultation with the dean.
(a)
These procedures
and criteria shall be approved by at least a simple majority of the eligible
faculty.
(i)
The dean shall not vote as a member of the regular
faculty.
(ii)
Any other individuals, beyond the level of the academic
unit, directly involved with the approval process for these procedures and
criteria are ineligible and shall not vote.
(iii)
In extenuating
circumstances, individual unit's guidelines may allow for absentee ballots for
faculty who have been participants in the
deliberations.
(b)
These procedures and criteria shall be approved by the
dean.
(c)
These procedures and criteria shall be approved by the
senior vice president and provost and chief operating
officer.
(2)
Annual evaluation procedures and criteria shall include
a process for amendment.
(3)
Annual evaluation procedures and criteria shall be
accessible to all faculty members. A copy of the procedures shall be available
in the department, the school, the college, and the office of the senior vice
president and provost and chief operating officer.
(4)
A written copy of
the completed annual evaluation shall be provided to the faculty member in a
timely manner.
(5)
Annual evaluation procedures shall include an
opportunity for the faculty member to meet with the initial evaluation(s) prior
to the forwarding of the evaluation beyond the academic unit.
(6)
Annual evaluation
procedures shall include an appeals process.
(7)
The annual
evaluation shall cover the period defined by the calendar year.
(8)
Annual evaluation
criteria shall address all components of the faculty member's responsibility
and shall be suited to the distinctive mission and role of the academic
unit.
(9)
In the case of conflict, the university rules and
regulations as contained in the Ohio Administrative Code supercede all other
guidelines.
(I)
Each academic unit shall establish procedures and
criteria for the purposes of recommending salary adjustments based on
merit.
(1)
Merit
procedures and criteria shall be established in writing by the academic unit
faculty in consultation with the dean.
(a)
Merit procedures
and criteria shall be approved by at least a simple majority of the eligible
faculty.
(i)
The
dean shall not vote as a member of the regular faculty.
(ii)
Any other
individuals, beyond the level of the academic unit, directly involved in the
approval process of these procedures and criteria are ineligible and shall not
vote.
(iii)
In extenuating circumstances, individual unit's
guidelines may allow for absentee ballots for faculty who have been
participants in the deliberations.
(b)
These procedures
and criteria shall be approved by the dean.
(c)
These procedures
and criteria shall be approved by the senior vice president and provost and
chief operating officer.
(2)
Merit procedures
and criteria shall include a process for amendment.
(3)
Merit procedures
and criteria shall be accessible to all faculty members. A copy of the
procedures shall be available in the department, the school, the college, and
the office of the senior vice president and provost and chief operating
officer.
(4)
Merit procedures shall require that the department
chair, school director, or dean in colleges without department provide to the
faculty member a written explanation of the merit award
recommendation.
(5)
Merit procedures shall include an appeals
process.
(6)
In the case of conflict, the university rules and
regulations as contained in the Ohio Administrative Code shall supercede all
other guidelines except for the collective bargaining agreement between the
university of Akron and the Akron chapter of the AAUP.
Replaces: 3359-20- 03.1
