TO:Department Chairs, Program Directors and Divisional Executive Committees

COLORADO COLLEGE

MEMORANDUM

TO:Department Chairs, Program Directors and Divisional Executive Committees

FROM:Sandi Wong, Dean of the College and Dean of the Faculty

DATE:December 1, 2017

SUBJECT:Salary Information Forms

In spring 2018, Mike Siddoway and I will review recommendations for faculty salaries and assign merit and extraordinary merit based on handbook criteria and information we receive from individual faculty members, chairs, and divisional executive committees.

All pre-tenure faculty are reviewed every year. Tenured faculty, adjuncts and lecturers are reviewed every other year. This year all faculty in departments and programs whose names begin with G-Z will be reviewed.As stated in the Faculty Handbook (Part Two, X.A.1.), we ask that you provide an evaluation and recommendation for each department member.

X. FACULTY COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Each fall department chairs invite non-tenured members of their department to submit by semester’s end a description of their professional accomplishments over the past year, using as guidelines the standards for scholarship, effective teaching and advising, department and College service, and professional and civic activities that are set forth in this Handbook. The chair shares the evaluation of performance with the faculty member and informs the Divisional Executive Committee of the performance and salary recommendations, and the Divisional Executive Committee submits its own recommendations to the Dean. The Dean bases her or his salary recommendations to the President on both departmental and Divisional Executive Committee evaluations. The annual salary letters to faculty specify the amounts allocated to each component in the salary model used in the calculation of the total salary for that year. Tenured faculty members participate in salary reviews every other year.

Please distribute salary information forms to faculty in your department and explain the process to faculty who have not submitted self-reports before. You may choose the date by which faculty submit their forms to you. To ensure that you will have sufficient time to review forms and make recommendations, we urge you to request reports from department members by mid- to late-January.

By FRIDAY,MARCH 2, 2018, please send completed materials n the Dean’s Office as both electronic PDF files andas hard copies. The Dean’s Office will distribute materials to the Divisional Executive Committees. Your packet must include:

• Individual faculty self-reports (including curriculum vitae)

• Chair’s evaluations and one of the following recommendations: standard merit; standard merit plus an extraordinary merit award; partial merit; no merit.

The college’s salary policy treats departments and programs the same, and values different profiles of effective teaching, research and institutional service. No faculty member is guaranteed any or all of the components of salary increases, but it is generally understood that most faculty, who do the work they are supposed to do at the level expected at CC, will receive the across-the-board raise and a merit-based raise. Extraordinary merit means just that: it is awarded to recognize special achievements or contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service through one-time extraordinary merit bonuses.