APPENDIX C: INITIAL SALARY PLACEMENT FORM – FACULTY
VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR: ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE POSITION:
LIMITED TERM CONTRACT:
NAME: DEPARTMENT: DATE:
PART I EDUCATION CREDIT
a) Highest degree or diploma
Institution: Date: _________________
b) Equivalent granted in lieu of degree or diploma:
Description of experience used to grant equivalency:
INITIAL MINIMUM PLACEMENT: STEP
c) Related Study: If Master’s degree, subtract one step for one year
of additional study or for double Master’s degree ____________________________
SUBTOTAL EDUCATION CREDIT: (minimum placement minus related study)
PART II EXPERIENCE CREDIT (see reverse for details)
Experience which is used to establish equivalency above cannot again be used for experience credit.
1. Full-time equivalent employment directly related to primary assignment
obtained after completion of the first diploma, degree or teaching certificate
in the field as defined in Article 11.4.1.7.
Date of first diploma, degree or teaching certificate
____(# of years) x 1.00
2. Full-time equivalent employment related to field, obtained after
completion of the first diploma, degree or teaching certificate in the
field as defined in Article 11.4.1.7.
Date of first diploma, degree or teaching certificate
____(# of years) x 0.50
SUBTOTAL EXPERIENCE CREDIT:
TOTAL EDUCATION CREDIT minus EXPERIENCE CREDIT =
(>.50 round up; <.50 round down)
Note: Normal maximum placement: STEP 6
INITIAL SALARY PLACEMENT: STEP
APPEAL: (11.4.3) Any appeal regarding initial salary placement must be initiated within ninety (90) days of commencing duty at the University or within sixty (60) days of receiving the placement form, whichever is later. Appeals should be directed to the Salary Placement Appeals Committee Chairman.
Date Associate Vice-President, Human Resources or Designate
NOTES RE INITIAL SALARY PLACEMENT:
- Initial salary placement will take place upon appointment. Upon reappointment of non-regular faculty, salary placement will not take place unless such reappointment occurs more than one academic year after the expiry of the last non-regular appointment.
- Experience directly related to primary assignment will include: teaching for those employed as instructors, counselling when employed as a counsellor, all librarian assignments for those employed as librarians, and all experience in a position related to the position for which they were hired.
- Research at the post-Doctoral level, and/or senior administrative experience in the field of hire or in the public education sector will be included as experience directly related to primary assignment.
- Teaching assistantships or other similar teaching assignments done while working on a Master’s or PhD will not be given extra credit unless the teaching assignment constitutes a full-time workload.
- Part-time teaching experience will be pro-rated based on a two-semester teaching year. Other part-time work experience will be pro-rated based on a 35 hour work week and 12-month year. In no event shall more than one year experience credit be granted for experience in any 12-month period.
- Teaching of non-credit courses is not included.
- The decimal fraction of a year’s experience leading to initial salary placement will not be carried forward to salary incremental progression.
- Only credentials from accredited institutions will be recognized when awarding initial minimum placement and for incremental progression based on completion of Master’s or Doctorate degrees.
- The decision of the Salaries Placement Appeals Committee is final.
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DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIENCE CREDIT CALCULATION: