This might include developing options for funding merit pay, salary equity compensation, gender equity compensation, minimum salaries by rank, or promotion increases. This illustrates an area in which collective bargaining facilitates faculty involvement in decision making, yet requires a balanced administration-faculty agreement on priorities. Definitions, responsibilities, and procedures addressing faculty leave of absence. This provides an example of an area in which procedural rights are addressed in a collective bargaining agreement while criteria are established by the faculty senate. Definition of and agreement on the rights of faculty in regard to academic freedom and tenure.
Tenure exists as a vehicle to ensure that academic freedom is protected.
Recent attacks on tenure nationwide have resulted in increased interest in promoting greater understanding and protecting faculty rights in this area. Agreement on promotion and tenure procedures. Another example of an area in which procedural rights are addressed in a collective bargaining agreement while criteria are established by the faculty senate. Language might include an agreed-upon definition of the role of departmental personnel committees, deans, and the provost in the promotion and tenure process. Agreement on terms of teaching load, summer session, and other professional responsibilities.