September 6, 2006

MEMORANDUM

To:	Distribution List
FROM:	Bill Houghton, Director of Academic Personnel
SUBJECT:	Range Elevation Policy for Lecturers

 

Under the terms of the bargaining agreement, lecturers who meet certain eligibility requirements may request range elevation, that is, a change in the salary range under which they are paid and a resulting increase in pay rate.

This memo is to notify eligible lecturers and their departments, announce the schedule of deadlines for this academic year, and provide some procedural information for lecturers.

Range elevation is described in Article 12.16 of the faculty bargaining agreement, which can be found online at http://www.calstate.edu/LaborRel/Contracts_HTML/CFA_CONTRACT/article12.shtml, and implemented by campus policy, online at http://www.sonoma.edu/uaffairs/policies/range.htm.

Campus policy requires departments with eligible faculty to develop procedures for evaluating applications for range elevation. Departments that have established such procedures in past years for the review of other faculty are not obligated to revise those policies, but must provide a copy of the procedures to the currently eligible faculty not later than November 1, and may certainly do so earlier.

To be evaluated for range elevation, each candidate must submit application materials that conform to the requirements of his or her department by the deadline stated in this memorandum. The application materials must demonstrate, in the words of the policy, "...professional growth and development appropriate to the lecturer's work assignment and the mission of the university during the period between the date of intial appointment or, where applicable, the date of the last range elevation and the time of the current request." More information is avilable in campus policy and departmental procedures.

If you choose not to apply for range elevation, please notify your department in writing, with a copy to your dean and to Faculty Affairs in the Office of the Provost. Such notice need not be more than a one-sentence memorandum or e-mail.

As outlined in both the bargaining agreement and campus policy, a lecturer eligible to be considered for range elevation is one who has no more service salary increase eligibility in his/her current range and who has served five years in the current range.

If you have questions about this policy, please call the Office of the Provost at X4-2101.

Distribution List:

Carol Blackshire-Belay, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Ruben Armiñana, President

Elaine McDonald-Newman, Chair of the Academic Senate

Lecturers eligible to apply for range elevation, and their department chairs and deans

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Schedule of Deadlines for Range Elevation

Academic Year 2006-2007

Notice to departments and faculty	September 6, 2006
Departments with existing procedures on range elevation send any revisions of procedures to Senate and the revised procedures to eligible lecturer(s) in the department	November 1, 2006
Departments without existing procedures on range elevation send procedures to Senate and to eligible lecturer(s) in the department	Within 10 days of development and not later than December 1, 2006
Lecturer applies or submits election not to apply	January 30, 2007
Department makes recommendation to dean	February 16, 2007
Dean responds to recommendation, approving or denying range elevation*	March 2, 2007
Deadline to appeal denial of range elevation	March 16, 2007
Deadline for dean to submit responses to appellant’s statements	March 30, 2007
Peer review panel is selected and charged	March 30, 2007
Peer review panel issues determination	May 11, 2007

*The dean’s response should be sent to the department and faculty member, with a copy to Faculty Affairs