GUIDELINES FOR CALCULATION
OF CREDITABLE EXPERIENCE
FOR
UNIVERSITY FACULTY
The following guidelines are used to determine the
appropriate salary placement for newly hired university faculty in the
Minnesota State Colleges & Universities.
Please read these guidelines to ensure that you have reported all
creditable experience. Experience should
be reported on the attached template and forwarded to the appropriate
dean/hiring authority. Your initial salary will be based on the
information you provide, subject to verification.
Creditable experience includes: 1) collegiate service outside a
To be eligible for consideration, experience must
meet the specifications of at least one of the following categories:
A. Collegiate Experience
1. Collegiate-level
teaching, research, and academic administration at a regionally accredited
4-year college or
university.
All collegiate-level
teaching, academic research, paid post-doctoral research, and academic
administration (exclusive of graduate teaching/research assistantships or
graduate instructorships, i.e. work undertaken at or for an institution at
which one is a graduate student) shall be counted year for year on an FTE basis
regardless of its relevance to the faculty member’s current university
assignment. This includes all
sabbatical leave periods from such institutions, and all academic
administration and/or university-approved research experience.
2. Other collegiate experience.
Years of service at regionally
accredited baccalaureate granting institutions in counseling, librarianship,
and academic administration (exclusive of graduate assistantships or graduate
instructorships, i.e. work undertaken at or for an institution at which one is
a graduate student) shall be counted year for year on an FTE basis.
B. Community/Technical
College Experience.
Experience at a non-baccalaureate
granting community or technical college shall be credited as follows: One (1.00) FTE year of community/technical
college experience equals three-fourths (.75) year of credit. (Note:
Report actual years of experience on the form as the calculator will do
the weighting).
C. Elementary
and Secondary Experience.
All professional-level
experience at elementary/secondary schools will be credited. Part-time work will be credited on a pro-rata
basis. One (1.00) FTE year of elementary/secondary experience equals one- half
(.50) year of credit. (Note: Report
actual years of experience on the form as the calculator will do the weighting).
D. Other
Experience.
Business, industry, and government
experience. If the prior
professional business, industry, and government experience bears a positive
relationship to the university assignment, it will be credited as follows: One (1.00) FTE year equals one-half (.50)
year of credit. (Note: Report actual
years of experience on the form as the calculator will do the weighting).
Miscellaneous
experience. It is recognized
that for certain academic areas (especially those in which creative ability and
performance or specialized skills are important criteria for the measurement of
ability and achievement) a standard of measurement and evaluation is difficult
to develop. For example, experience as a
creative or performing artist should be counted if the prior professional
experience bears a positive relationship to the university assignment. One (1.00) FTE year equals one-half (.50)
year of credit. (Note: Report actual years of experience on the form
as the calculator will do the weighting).
Military experience. Military experience will be credited as
follows: Conscripted military service is active, full-time military work
that requires departure from other employment and return to that other
employment upon completion of military service.
Such experience will be credited in the same manner as the type of
employment that was interrupted due to conscription. Non-conscripted military service will be credited only if it bears
a direct relationship to the university assignment. One (1.00) FTE year equals one-half (.50)
year of credit for non-conscripted, related military service. (Note:
Report actual years of experience on the form as the calculator will do
the weighting.).
CALCULATION OF CREDITABLE
EXPERIENCE
Creditable experience will be
determined in accordance with the following criteria.
1. Years will be expressed
in terms of full-time equivalent service with full-time workload equal to one
(1) FTE year. No more than 1.00 FTE year may be credited in any twelve (12) month period.
2. Years of service at
other accredited collegiate institutions in teaching and academic
administration (exclusive of graduate assistantships, teaching assistantships,
or research assistantships while a graduate student) shall be credited on the
same basis as provided in (1) above.
3. Academic and non-academic work
experience accrued in the same calendar year will not be credited
separately. Specifically, a maximum of
one year’s experience will be credited for both academic and non-academic work experience
completed within any twelve (12) month period; an academic year shall be the
equivalent of one (1) year for this purpose.
4. All
allowable part-time experience will be credited on a full-time equivalent
basis. *
5. No
experience credit will accrue for time spent on a leave of absence without pay
unless agreed to in the IFO Master Agreement.
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* Part-time
work shall be counted on a pro-rata basis according to the following formula:
Academic Work Experience Non Academic Work
Experience
Academic
year (FT) 1.00 12-months, Full-time 1.00
One
semester AY .50 Equivalent
of one semester .33
Part-time Fraction of Part-time Fraction of
above
time
above time
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