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• Provide an adequate standard of living at entry-level, with appropriate salary increases over time for experience, rank, and expertise.
• Encourage high-level performance and recognize differentials in achievement.
• Reflect a smaller compensation differential between entry-level and senior faculty than might be the case with some of our peer institutions.
• Provide deans with some flexibility to respond to market forces in recruiting and retaining a strong faculty.
• Provide internal equity through clear criteria for performance and transparent compensation procedures equitably applied.
• Respond to external equity data, recognizing limitations based on egalitarian values.  CCCU member institutions are the principle external benchmark for faculty compensation.
• Be flexible enough to achieve goals, while being applied in an objective non-discriminatory fashion.
• Be easy to understand and administer.
• Comply with state and federal employment laws.

Initial Placement on Salary Schedule

Placing faculty on the salary scale involves two major aspects: determining rank and determining the steps in a range from zero to ten. Following is a description of the procedure and the criteria.

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B. Discretionary Steps. Additional steps may be awarded at the discretion of the dean and with the approval of the provost.  These steps are given to mark significant progress on performance criteria in teaching, scholarship and service or to recognize particular exceptional achievement in any of the three performance areas.  They may also be granted in response to internal or market equity concerns.   Discretionary steps are awarded at the discretion of the dean in consultation with the chair or program director.  Requests for discretionary steps may be initiated by any of the parties involved.  This will often occur following the annual performance review meeting between a chair or program director and the faculty member.  Recommendations for discretionary steps will be considered once per year during the preliminary budget building process. Normally, there will be at least a 2-3 year interval between discretionary steps.

Salary Schedule

Annual salaries are calculated by multiplying the university base salary (adjusted annually) by an index factor associated with a faculty member’s particular rank and step level.  The salary schedule includes three categories of compensation.  Category 1 includes most faculty members in the arts and sciences and professions.  Category 2 includes a few disciplines where market factors and external equity pressures make recruitment and retention more difficult (currently business, nursing, engineering, computer science, and clinical psychology).  Category 3 includes exceptional cases across all departments where special market circumstances or strategic considerations (e.g., diversity goals) justify higher compensation.  The placement of disciplines in Categories 1 and 2 will be reviewed every five years (or earlier if necessary) by the Provost and VP for Finance in consultation with the President of Faculty Senate.

Index Schedule (base adjusted annually)

PROVISIONS:

1. Steps 1-10 include both experience steps and discretionary steps.
2. Experience steps are carried across promotions in rank.  Discretionary steps are reset at each promotion to the step nearest a 5% salary increase.
3. The Board of Trustees determines rank upon recommendation by the administration (initial appointments) and upon recommendation of the administration and Faculty Status Committee (promotions).
4. A full-time (9 months) salary is determined by multiplying the above level-step index times the established base.  Salaries for less than full-time persons who are classified by level and step (half time or more) are determined proportionately to the contract load.
5. Adjunct instructors are remunerated according to the Adjunct Faculty Salary Schedule available in the office of the provost.

Contract Period and Payment Schedule

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Contract Period

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The EMU faculty scale is based on a nine-month assignment from mid-August to mid-May. Faculty are expected to attend the annual fall and spring faculty/staff conferences scheduled in mid-August and early May, as well as other events that may be scheduled in May and late August. Faculty and departments are encouraged to use the first couple weeks of May for planning and curriculum work or other professional development activities. Graduate and seminary faculty should consult with their director or dean for possible alternative annual schedules.

Payment Schedules

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Full-time faculty salaries are paid over a twelve-month period beginning August 31 of the respective contract year. There are several voluntary deductions that faculty may elect to have deducted from their paychecks. These include payments into an approved tax deferred plan, participation in the flexible benefits plan or dental plan, or a front-end contribution to EMU. In cases of special need, a faculty member may request a payroll advance. Advances will be deducted from the next paycheck to be issued.

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Direct deposit is available to any bank. An authorization form (available from Human Resources or Payroll) along with either a voided check or deposit ticket needs to be turned into the payroll clerk. On each payday a form similar to a check stub will be distributed showing the gross to net calculations.

Termination of Contract

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Conditions and Procedures for Termination

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Cases of Incompetence or Misconduct

Upon the recommendation of the president to the Board of Trustees, a contract for a faculty member may be terminated for unsatisfactory service such as incompetence, neglect of duty, opposition to the mission and goals of EMU or the Mennonite Church, or ethical or moral misconduct. The faculty member so terminated, except as hereinafter noted, shall be notified of the termination in writing by the respective dean on or before January 15, to be effective at the end of the current academic year.

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Faculty who are the subject of informal (within the institution) or formal (legal) charges/allegations may be suspended from duties (with or without compensation) pending an investigation of charges/allegations.

Cases of Financial Exigency

The Board of Trustees, upon the president's recommendation, can also terminate a faculty member's contract under conditions of financial exigency. The faculty so terminated shall be notified in writing by the respective dean on or before January 15, to be effective at the end of the current academic year. In such cases: 1) Any decision that financial exigency exists will include the Provost's prior consultation with Faculty Senate; 2) New appointments will not be made in the same program for a period of three years, unless the released faculty member is offered reinstatement and a resonable time to accept the offer, and; 3) Every effort shall be made to employ the released faculty member elsewhere in the university, as appropriate.

                                                                                                                                            Approved by Academic Cabinet November 30, 2011
                                                                                                                                       Approved by President' s Cabinet November 30, 2011

Appeals Procedure

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Appeal in the case of a terminated contract must be initiated by the faculty member in writing within one month of the date of termination notice, such appeal to be addressed to the president. An ad hoc review committee shall be created at the direction of the president. The terminated faculty member shall select one member of the ad hoc committee; the Faculty Status Committee shall select a member. The president, provost, and the respective dean shall also serve on the ad hoc committee. The committee shall meet not later than one month after the terminated faculty member initiates the appeal. The ad hoc committee shall hold hearings and otherwise review the merits of the case. The verdict must be in writing and addressed to the faculty member in question. In the event the ad hoc committee verdict is contested, the aggrieved party may initiate formal grievance procedures.