The proposal calls for making salary contingent on performance.
Under the new program, each tenured professor must attend an annual face-to-face performance review.
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Each professor is evaluated and concrete performance expectations are written up for the next year.
And salaries are raised only if those expectations are met.
If a faculty member repeatedly underachieves, he or she "might be offered a reduction to part-time status," the report reads.
Despite its rather sinister appearance, Faulkes called the new policy "more rehabilitative than punitive."
But the fact remains that, as long as the university's goal is to reduce its budget, someone's salary will be increasing less than expected.
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