Senate Document SD 06-5

 

 

 

MEMORANDUM

 

 

TO:                  Fort Wayne Senate

 

FROM:            Ahmad Karim, Chair

                        Executive Committee

 

DATE:             25 October 2006

 

SUBJ:              Nature of increment funds

 

DISPOSITION:  To the Presiding Officer for implementation

 

 

WHEREAS, the IPFW campus administration, above the departmental level, is directly distributing a larger portion of annual increments than in the past; and

 

WHEREAS, a declining amount of this money is being distributed to address salary compression; and

 

WHEREAS, faculty have no input into increment policy creation beyond the departmental level nor the ability to assess its enforcement as a group;

 

BE IT RESOLVED, That the Executive Committee annually prepare appropriate questions for the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the September Senate meeting regarding the nature of the distribution of increment funds administered by the central administration. 

 

 

 

 

Approved                                 Disapproved                             Absent

J. Grant                                                                                    B. Abbott

A. Karim, Chair                                                                        C. Champion

M. Nusbaumer

D. Turnipseed

N. Younis