Thus, 4-5 years ago a compression adjustment was made. In Education the chair is primarily involved with recommending senior faculty salaries, while the Executive Committee has a primary role with the junior faculty. In Law, the Associate Dean provides input to the Dean on teaching performance only. In Pharmacy the chairs meet as a group to review and recommend merit salary increases. All eighteen schools and colleges have a system for self-reporting of activity by each member of the faculty.
Nursing has an annual reporting process, but a bi-annual merit review process.
Of the seven that did not indicate chair involvement, none have a formal department structure. Nine of eighteen units involve their executive committees in some fashion. Five units report some type of structure for hearing challenges, ranging from an initial meeting with the chair to a formal grievance.