Classification of Service Professionals Service Professionals have voiced concerns about how we are classified and about how merit funds were distributed. Ed Talley forwarded these concerns to HR and asked Craig Schill and Beth Fitch to talk to the SPAC members. Service Professionals are a group generally considered to be mid management. It is sometimes difficult to determine if the employee should be service professional or classified staff. Craig said that some case to case analysis is sometimes necessary to make the appropriate decision.
Classified staff are sometimes reclassified to service professionals and vice versa.
The mechanisms are in place to do this analysis and an in-depth review of a specific position may be necessary. The service professional classification is new, ASU and the U of A only developed their service professional classification in the past two years. All appointed staff used to be classified as administration. Service professionals evolved out of this because of differences between these positions and administration. The problem of classification also arises when considering service professionals and administrators.