Zacharias said no one knows what kind of salary increases there may be for the next fiscal year. He said while it's been reported in the media that the community colleges are getting funds for salary hikes, the Institutions of Higher Learning got no additional funding for salary increases. He pointed out that the community colleges are under the direction of their own board and their "whole funding process is entirely different."
Zacharias said the university does have a limited amount of money to spend on salaries and should have enough to allocate for faculty and staff promotions. Any extra will be known after the college board meets this month.
He talked about some problems with the super drop policy, which allows students to drop up to five courses during their academic careers up to 10 days before the semester ends. Once this is done, the university loses credit for the student—it's as if they never were enrolled in a class.
Leah Norman, acting vice president for business affairs, said such drops cost the university around $1 million a year.
As part of its regular meeting, the staff council voted to seek funding from the Department of Human Resources Management to pay for professional analysis of results of its recent campuswide survey of staff opinions.
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