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CLAS Policies
Salary associated with vacant faculty lines (whether tenured, tenure-track or non-tenure track) approved for rehire will remain in the units to cover interim replacement costs. OPE reverts to the Dean's Office. Any difference between the outgoing faculty salary and the salary for the refill position is retained by the Dean's Office.
Search Costs – CLAS will provide up to $4,000 per search to cover advertising, hosting, travel, etc. At the conclusion of the search, departments will need to provide a list of actual costs to clasfin@pdx.edu. Search costs will then be transferred to the department’s R01 index.
Please submit answers to the following three sections to Jim Adkins Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration by email: jadkins@pdx.edu
*This can be download as a Word document to make writing the memo easier. See bottom of the page.
Type of Position
If your department would like to conduct a search to fill a faculty position for the 2017-18 academic year please submit the following:
1. Name of the departing faculty
2. Last date the faculty was or will be employed
3. Resignation letter
4. The rank the department would like to refill at. The typical rank is Assistant for tenure track and Instructor for non tenure track. If your department would like to hire at a different level please include a short description explaining why.
5. Salary range
6. Nature of the position (i.e. will the incoming faculty have the same or different disciplinary focus as the former/outgoing faculty? Will they teach the same set of courses and/or have a similar research emphasis?)
7. How will the faculty member contribute to moving the departmental vision forward?
8. How have departmental needs changed since your last hire? (e.g., faculty have become more grant-active; number of majors has dramatically increased or declined)
9. Anticipated start date for the new faculty member.
Start-up package needs (for tenure-track positions only):
1. Will the new faculty be offered a course release in their first year?
2. Will the new faculty be offered 1 month's worth of salary in the summer immediately after they complete their first year?
3. The Dean's Office will provide the department with up to $4,000 to cover moving expenses. Funds will be transferred to the unit once reimbursements have been approved by the University. Departments should e-mail clasfin@pdx.edu with the amount to be transferred.
4. Will the new faculty be offered discretionary start-up funds? If so, please request an amount.
5. What office is the incoming faculty likely to be assigned to?
6. If the new faculty requires additional space, such as a lab, please describe how the department plans to provide such space, include specific room #’s.
Temporary replacement instruction needs:
If the position will be occupied by the outgoing faculty then the department does not need funds for replacement instruction during the 2017-18 academic year. But, if the position is currently vacant, or will be vacant for all/part of next year, then please also submit a plan for interim replacement/coverage.
1. How will courses be covered during the academic year? Possibilities include not needing to offer some courses that are on an every other year schedule, shifting teaching assignments for existing faculty, hire additional capacity, etc.
2. Provide details on the course costs such as adjunct rate(s), # of credits, etc. Do not worry about OPE as that will be added when all requests are compiled.
*Please include this information even if the funds for replacement instruction have already been built into your budget by leaving the salary of departing faculty in place.
It is our hope to make decisions about departmental requests quickly so that the department can begin the search for replacement faculty.
Questions?
Please contact Jim Adkins at jadkins@pdx.edu
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