Overlapping Steps

NEW: Overlapping Steps

Following preliminary consultation with CAP, CP/EVC Kletzer has proposed changes to campus academic personnel policy on Overlapping Steps (also called “barrier steps”). If the policy goes into effect, promotion from an overlapping step will be to Step 1 in the higher rank by default, with an equivalent amount of salary (1 step, 1 and 1⁄3 steps, 1 and 2⁄3 steps, 2 steps, or 2 1⁄3 steps) awarded as an off-scale increase. The policy change will prevent future Associate Professors from prematurely reaching the salary limits on barrier steps. Details can be found on the APO website (Policy Under Review); comments are due no later than November 18, 2024.

In order to transition to the new policy on Overlapping Steps, a Special Salary Practice adjustment will address a potential remaining issue for recently tenured faculty at their first review at the associate rank. In review years 2024-25 and 2025- 26, and contingent upon the adoption of the policy revision, a candidate who was promoted into the Associate rank at Step 3 and then at their first post-tenure review is awarded an acceleration-equivalent increase (i.e. equivalent to AC or A1) to Step 4, will not be subject to the salary limits on barrier steps. In these circumstances the salary equivalent of an extra one or one and 1⁄3 steps (AC and A1) will be added to the off-scale component. This temporary measure for newly- tenured faculty at their first associate-rank review will be needed only until the policy change is enacted.