Academy for Academic Personnel Administration
Fall 2003
Round Table Report
1. Institution Information
Name of Institution/System: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Name of Individual Responding: Robert A. Jensen
Title of Individual Responding: Interim Associate Provost (Budget and Personnel)
2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Approximately 670 tenured and tenure-track faculty on at least 50% faculty appointment.
Bargaining Agent: SIUC Faculty Association (Illinois Education Association/NEA)
Date of First Contract: 15 July 1997
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 2
3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):
Third contract settled last February (2003) with one retroactive year and three beyond to 30 June 2006. Monetary side included total salary increase for faculty covered by collective bargaining as follows: FY03 – 0%, FY04 – 2.0%, FY05 – 2.5%, and FY06 – 3.0%, with the increase distributed as 50% merit, 35% across-the-board, and 15% equity.
4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)
5. Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):