Grandfathered Language/New Procedures for Fall ‘07

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Grandfathered Language/New Procedures for Fall ‘07

2007-11 Contract

(in the contract and/or by mutual agreement)

All language in the contract shall go into effect upon ratification and board approval (retroactive to the beginning of Fall semester) with the exception of the following items that will be grandfathered in as noted below:

Promotion: 4^th & 5^th Year

An employee may apply for promotion to Associate Professor in her or his fourth or fifth year of full-time service at the University at the rank of Assistant Professor if hired before September 1, 2007. Faculty hired after September 1, 2007 shall apply for promotion to Associate Professor in the same year that she/he applies for tenure.

Promotion: Evaluation Period

Promotion: the evaluation period for promotion will include the employee's entire record since the initial hiring date or since the year before the effective date of the last promotion, whichever is later. Beginning September 1, 2008, and through the end of this contract, the evaluation period for promotion (to both Associate Professor and Full Professor) will include the employee's entire record since the initial hiring date.

Professional Achievement Awards

The former PAA system per the UPI/WIU Agreement 2001-2007 will remain in effect through the 2007-2008 evaluation year for those eligible to apply under the former PAA system in 2007-2008 (“Cycle C”), and in effect through the 2008-2009 evaluation year for those eligible to apply under the former PAA system in 2008-2009 (“Cycle D”). Those faculty falling in Cycles C and D under the former PAA system will be allowed to apply for PAA per the timelines and procedures under that former system.

The new Department PAA Activities documents per the UPI/WIU Agreement 2007-2011 as approved shall become effective September 1, 2007, and all faculty members may submit PAA Annual Points Record forms on or around September 1, 2008.

Faculty in Cycle A (who could have applied for a PAA in September, 2009) may submit their activities conducted from 2005-07 in the Scholarly/Professional Activities Area on the PAA Annual Points Record form on or around September 1, 2008. Faculty in Cycle B (who could have applied for a PAA in September, 2010) may submit their activities conducted from 2006-07 in the Scholarly/Professional Activities Area on the PAA Annual Points Record form on or around September 1, 2008.

Bringing in Years of Service

Faculty hired before September 1, 2007 will fall under the old contract with regard to bringing in prior years of service. Faculty hired after September 1, 2007 will fall under the new language requiring “full time tenure-track service at another university” (see 20.9.6.1. and 20.10.7.1).

Thesis Payment

Faculty currently advising a Thesis will be paid the $500 stipend, if the thesis is completed, up until December 21, 2007. Any thesis completed after December 21, 2007 will be compensated through the PAA points system.

Overload between 18-22 ACEs

Faculty who work between 18-22 ACEs will have the option of taking the stipend ($1000 per ACE) or accepting PAA points (not both) for the 2007-08 academic year. This applies only to faculty in colleges wherein a chair or dean made a prior commitment to pay the stipend before the course or primary duty was assigned. Effective the first day of the Fall semester, 2008, no overload stipend will be paid unless a faculty member is assigned over 22 ACEs (see 29.8).

Outside Employment

Commencing with first day of Spring semester, 2008, all employees who desire to have employment outside the university, to include teaching outside the university, must have submitted a request to their department chair asking for approval to engage in outside employment (see 18.17, 32.3).

Department Criteria

Old Department Criteria shall remain in effect for this academic year. The new criteria will go into effect in Fall, 2008.

Department Workload Equivalents

Old DWEs will remain in effect this academic year to include such things as ACEs for Advising, Internships, Pre-student Teaching, Teaching Certification Portfolio evaluation, and Program Accreditation.

New items to go into effect this year, 2007-08:

College Personnel Committees

College Personnel Committees are to be established this year and fulfill the duties assigned to them in the contract. There should be no inherent difficulty with CPCs evaluating portfolios under the old contractual language.

Appeals to Dean

Faculty may appeal negative decisions to deans this coming academic year, 2007-08.