ARTICLE 11
Salaries

Subd. 1. Effective July 1, 2001, salaries of tenured, probationary, fixed-term, and non-tenure track faculty members covered by this Agreement shall be at the rates set forth below on the salary schedule as full-time nine-month (168 days) base salaries. Returning faculty members shall be initially placed on the same salary step (new style) in the same lane occupied at the end of FY 2001.

Subd. 2. Returning Faculty. After being placed on the salary schedule as prescribed in Subdivision 1, faculty members who were in the bargaining unit in FY 2001 and who return in FY 2002 shall advance one (1) step on the salary schedule.

a. After being placed on the salary schedule as prescribed in Subdivision 1, faculty members promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2001 shall move to the step on the salary schedule Professor lane paying the same salary and then advance two steps in addition to the step movement provided for in Subd. 2 of this section. If, after being advanced on the Professor lane as provided in this paragraph and Subdivision 2 of Section A, a promoted faculty member is placed at Step 12 of the Professor lane or below, the promoted faculty member shall be advanced to Step 13.

b. After being placed on the salary schedule as prescribed in Subdivision 1, faculty members promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Associate Professor to Professor effective July 1, 2001 shall advance two steps on the Professor lane of the salary schedule in addition to the step movement provided in Subd. 2 of this section.

Subd. 4. Placement. Following the step advancement provided for in Subdivisions 2 and 3 of this section, Instructors shall not be placed below Step 8 of the Instructor lane, Assistant Professors shall not be placed below Step 13, Associate Professors shall not be placed below Step 15, and Professors shall not be placed below Step 17. These minimum step placements shall also be applicable to all newly hired faculty with appointments beginning on or after July 1, 2001.

Subd. 5. Adjunct and Community Faculty. Effective July 1, 2001 salaries of adjunct and community faculty members covered by this Agreement shall be at a rate of not less than one thousand seventy-five dollars ($1,075) per credit.

Subd. 1. Returning Faculty. Effective July 1, 2002, faculty members who were in the bargaining unit in FY 2002 and who return in FY 2003 shall advance two (2) steps on the salary schedule.

a. Faculty members promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2002 shall move to the step on the salary schedule Professor lane paying the same salary as the step occupied during FY 2002 and advance two steps in addition to the step movement provided for in Subd. 1 of this section. If, after being advanced on the Professor lane as provided in this paragraph and Subdivision 1 of Section B, a promoted faculty member is placed at Step 14 of the Professor lane or below, the promoted faculty shall be advanced to Step 15.

b. Faculty members promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Associate Professor to Professor effective July 1, 2002 shall advance two steps on the Professor lane of the salary schedule in addition to the step movement provided for in Subd. 1 of this section.

Subd. 3. Placement. Following the step advancement provided for in Subdivisions 1 and 2 of this section, Instructors shall not be placed below Step 10 of the Instructor lane, Assistant Professors shall not be placed below Step 15, Associate Professors shall not be placed below Step 17, and Full Professors shall not be placed below Step 19. These minimum step placements shall also be applicable to all newly hired faculty with appointments beginning on or after July 1, 2002.

Subd. 4. Adjunct and Community Faculty. Effective July 1, 2002 salaries of adjunct and community faculty members covered by this Agreement shall be at a rate of not less than one thousand seventy-five dollars ($1,075) per credit.

Section C. Faculty Who Provide Early Notice of Retirement. Faculty members who elect to retire with at least fifteen (15) years of service in the Minnesota State Universities and who are at least age fifty-five (55) shall have his/her salary placement increased by two additional steps on the salary schedule(s) established in this Agreement in the final two semesters of employment. To receive this benefit the affected faculty member must submit a written letter of retirement by October 1 if retirement will occur prior to the beginning of the subsequent fall semester or by January 15 if retirement will occur at the end of the subsequent fall semester.

Section D. New and Promoted Faculty Assignment and Placement.

Subd. 1. New faculty hired during the term of this Agreement shall be assigned to an appropriate rank in accordance with Article 21, Section D.

Subd. 2. New faculty members beginning employment shall be placed in the appropriate lane at the salary, which is nearest to, but not less than, the salary offered on appointment.

Subd. 3. After implementation of Subdivisions 1-2 of this section and subject to the minimum step placements set forth above, new faculty members shall be deemed to have been placed upon the appropriate step, and no further step placement movement or calculations shall be made.

Section E. Service at the Top of the Schedule. All faculty who have been at the top of their salary lane for five (5) years shall receive the equivalent of a two-step (approximately a 4.85%) salary adjustment in the next year. Partial years of service at the top of the salary lane and years in which steps are added to the top of the schedule for these lanes shall not be counted toward the calculation of the five- (5) year period.

Section F. Death in Service. If a faculty member who meets the eligibility requirements for Employer-paid insurance benefits dies after his/her first duty day of employment, but before his/her insurance coverage becomes effective, the unpaid balance of his/her annual salary shall be paid to his/her spouse or dependent children.

Section G. Health and Dental Premium and Expense Accounts. The Employer agrees to provide insurance-eligible employees with the option to pay for the employee portion of health and dental premiums on a pre-tax basis as permitted by law or regulation. The Employer agrees to allow employees to cover co-payments, deductibles and other medical and dental expenses, or expenses for services not covered by health or dental insurance, as permitted by law or regulation, up to a maximum expenditure of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per insurance year.

The employer shall make a cash payment of three hundred dollars ($300) to each insurance-eligible employee on the first pay date following legislative approval of this Agreement. This payment shall be regarded as payment for non-covered medical expenses.

Section H. Dependent Care Expense Account. The Employer agrees to provide insurance-eligible faculty members with the option to participate in a dependent care reimbursement program for work-related dependent care expenses on a pre-tax basis as permitted by law or regulation.

Section I. Salary Equity. The Salary Review Committee (SRC) and the Appeals Committee established in the 1992 Letter of Understanding on Salary Equity shall be continued for the life of this Agreement. The SRC may propose to both the IFO and MnSCU procedures and processes, which will reduce the likelihood of inequitable salaries. After the FY 94 review, the SRC will annually review new hires, faculty awarded terminal degrees since the previous annual review, and any other faculty not previously reviewed for possible equity adjustments, and will recommend appropriate placement based on the then current equity grid.

The SRC will complete a new analysis of the salaries of all faculty every four years in order to update and/or modify data and relevant criteria and recommend adjustments. Appeals from denials of adjustment shall be considered within the time frame established by the committee.

Section J. Part-Time Faculty Placement on Salary Schedule. All part-time faculty who teach more than ten (10) credits in any one (1) academic year shall be placed upon the salary schedule and paid on a pro rata basis for the entire academic year during which said amount of service is rendered. If any part-time faculty member who teaches more than ten (10) credits in any one academic year were paid less than pro rata for any semesters, during said academic year by virtue of having received an adjunct or community faculty appointment(s), the university shall, as soon as practicable after learning that the faculty member will teach more than ten (10) credits during a single academic year, supplement the faculty member’s salary such that the faculty member receives full pro rata pay for the entire year.

Section K. Career Steps. All faculty members who have completed ten (10) years of service shall receive two (2) additional steps on the salary schedule at the beginning of their eleventh (11) year of service. Faculty members who have completed twenty (20) years of service shall receive an additional two (2) steps on the salary schedule at the beginning of their twenty-first year of service. Faculty members who have completed thirty (30) years of service shall receive an additional two (2) steps on the salary schedule at the beginning of their thirty-first year of service.

The seniority roster shall be used to determine years of service. Administrators who return to the bargaining unit shall have the years served as an administrator included in the years of service for purposes of this section only.

For purposes of implementing this Section, those faculty members having ten (10) or more years of service but less than twenty (20) years of service as of July 1, 2002 shall, on the 85^th duty day of each University’s 2002-2003 academic year, receive a two (2)-step increase in addition to the step movements otherwise provided for in other Sections of this Article. Those faculty members having twenty (20) or more years of service but less than thirty (30) years of service as of July 1, 2002 shall, on the 85^th duty day of each University’s 2002-2003 academic year, receive a four (4)-step increase in addition to the step movements otherwise provided for in other Sections of this Article. Those faculty members having thirty (30) or more years of service as of July 1, 2002 shall, on the 85^th duty day of each University’s 2002-2003 academic year, receive a six (6)-step increase in addition to the step movements otherwise provided for in other sections of this Article.

For the 2002-2003 academic year, faculty who meet the years of service requirements set forth in this Section and who are scheduled to and work only during fall semester shall receive the steps provided in this Section as set forth in this paragraph. Faculty working only fall or spring semester shall be compensated on a pro rata basis of the salary for the entire 2002-2003 academic year.

Unless extended or modified by the parties to this Agreement, this Section shall sunset on June 30, 2007.

Section L. One-time Cash Payment. The Employer shall make a one-time cash payment of three hundred dollars ($300) to each full-time insurance eligible employee as soon as practicable following legislative approval of this Agreement. This Section will sunset at the expiration of the 2001-2003 agreement.

(Note: All references in this article are to the "new style" step designations.)

(Note: Values shown in shaded cells are for calculation purposes only. Individuals are not to be permanently placed on these steps.)