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Monday 1.28The Student Government
Assembly Executive meets at 4
p.m. in Tivoli Suite 329
Wednesday 1.30Faculty Senate meets at 3:50 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m. in Central Classroom
Room 301
THE METROPOLITAN25 YEARS AGO January 26, 1983Policy o pooled
classescriticized W. Thomas Cathey, chairman o
UCDs Faculty Assembly makes
complaints to the Board o
Regents on a policy that allows
UCD students to register and
receive credit toward graduation
in MSCD classes
Library resource centerequipped or handicappedAuraria Library
receives
equipment or the handicapped,
including Braille typewriters,
word processors and the Talking
World Book Encyclopedia
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A large crowdgathered towatch Im StillHere: YoungPeople WhoLived
Duringthe Holocauston Jan. 16 atthe Tivoli Turn-halle. The
flmeatures storiesrom the diarieso young people
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Metros proessors will soon have
a chance at bonus pay, whether theylike it or not. Ater the
acultys 50-
50 vote on the bonus idea overall
and their rejection o the current
system or the awards, the Board o
Trustees voted on Dec. 7 to imple-
ment the Pay or Perormance plan,
albeit without making a decision on
the contested criteria.
The board moved to phase in
the plan and gave the aculty until
May 1 to determine how the system
would review them.
The aculty, however, remain al-
most evenly divided about the plan
that must begin reviewing the ac-
ulty this year to begin paying out
awards in 2009.
The Pay or Perormance system
or ull-time aculty at Metropolitan
State College means that their annu-
al income is dependant upon pleas-
ing their superiors on criteria not
related to the quality o instruction
anthropology proessor Emery
James wrote in an e-mail sent to Met-
ro aculty. James wrote in the e-mail
that P4P is not aimed at improving
the level o education at Metro, but
about prodding and herding aculty
into submission through economicblackmail.
The plan, which promises to
reward proessors between $2,000
and $10,000 i they meet the crite-
ria, will encourage proessors to ne-
glect their day-to-day duties instead
o rewarding excellence as intended,
James said. He added it would ur-
ther the problem o preerential
treatment and avoritism or pro-
essors who play up to department
chairs.
P4P would score the proessors
in our areas teaching, scholar-
ship, advising and student support
and college and community service
and what remains to be worked
out beore May 1 is what specically
each o the categories means. Proes-
sors who score above average in one
o the areas and are up to standard
in the others will receive a percent-
age o the money paid out during the
course o the ollowing year.
The goal is to weight the cat-
egories and establish criteria that
will encourage strong teachers and
not fashy behavior, said Tat Sang
So, an assistant English proessor
and member o the P4P committee.I think the disagreement is
actu-
ally positive everyone has strong
opinions about what makes a good
teacher, and everyones opinion is
being heard.
Ellen Slatkin, president o Met-
ros Faculty Federation, said a big
problem with the plan is the money:
where it comes rom and where it
will go. Funds or the awards come
rom an amount set aside in the an-
nual budget that equals 8 percent o
total proessor salaries, or around
$2.1 million in 2009. I the budget
shrank as in a recession, Slatkin
said, the budget could dry up.
And salaries will not improve in
the long run. The amount proes-
sors receive in yearly salary depends
on what subject they teach and
what year they were hired. Market-
ing proessors receive more than
English proessors because there is
more demand or business. Addi-
tionally, aculty that was hired when
the economy was slow oten receive
much lower starting salaries than
their colleagues who were hired in
good years. Slatkin said the aculty
ederation wants more to be done toequalize these dierences.
A lot has been done in the last
two years as ar as equity, said
Cathy Lucas, Metros vice president
or communications. Lucas said that
compared to two years ago, Metro
had made great strides to even up
salaries.
We are going to move orward
(with P4P), and rst the plan needs
clear criteria so the aculty know
how they are being graded, she
said. Lucas said the trustees made
great progress on listening to the
acultys concerns about the plan
and that more and more proessors
were supporting the plan.
Everyone is on track on this
and there is still work to be done,
Lucas said.
Merit pay pushes forward
By ANdREw-fLOHR [email protected]
Proessors to be graded,fnancial awards givenbased on
perormance
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