Self-funding is another approach to correcting salary inequity. For some colleges, donors may be located who would like to endow a professorship, and the departments may use those funds to raise faculty salaries for faculty who have Chairs or Professorships. In other cases, the difference in Blue Book has been used for self-funding when senior faculty retire and the unit then hires at the assistant level. This year, the Deans have been asked to let the Vice Chancellor know how much they can expect, at maximum, to receive in self-funding, and what the sources are. Cannibalizing the position or taking significant funds for increases out of the operating budget.
Some units are able to get more endowment money than others.
Therefore, a combination of unit merit and self-funding will be used to correct inequities. Last year AVCs Bill Kaempfer and Todd Gleeson performed a study in response to the Chancellor's request that the Boulder Campus address gender equity issues. Data was examined across each level, as well as across divisions, schools, and colleges. A factor that was not taken into account in the regression analysis is merit, and the plan to correct the discrepancy is to make adjustments based on merit. D. Committee Reports BFA Election Nominating Committee Hauser reported that a nominating committee has been formed composed of Barbara Bintliff, Uriel Nauenberg, Bob Schulzinger, and himself.