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Faculty raise pool set at 1.5 percent

A 1.5 percent increase has been dedicated to raises for the faculty and staff.

The University Budget Committee recommended the increase last year, which the Board of Trustees approved at their December meeting, said the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., in his January 2011 Convocation remarks.

The Salary Merit Pool is the amount of funds reserved for merit raises. These raises will be for faculty and staff at Loyola.

The person deciding who will receive a raise depends on the protocols in the area. It can be a dean, director, vice president or other supervisors, said Edward Kvet, vice president of Academic Affairs.

“Raises are based on merit according to protocols established in the colleges and other areas,” Kvet said.

The amount of a raise is decided by the college protocols to determine merit, according to Kvet.

In the College of Business, every faculty member completes a Faculty Annual Report form.

In this form, they discuss their teaching, research and service done over the year.

The dean then rates the faculty member’s performance on three areas. This rating is used to create a weighted composite score.

The composite scores are used as guidelines to determine how much of the merit raise pool they will receive, according to Amy Keeler, assistant to dean of the College of Business.

The faculty at Loyola have opposing views of the 1.5 percent increase dedicated to the Salary Merit Pool.

“I can’t really speak for the faculty, generally. For myself, I can say that merit raises, when fairly determined and accompanied by cost of living increments for everyone, are an important means of rewarding productivity,” said Barara C. Ewell, English professor and vice-chair of the Faculty Senate.

“One of the arguments in support of this raise is the low inflation rate nationally. However, those of us who have lived in the New Orleans area since Katrina have seen our costs rise, and some, like insurance costs, very dramatically,” said Maria Calzada, associate professor of mathematics.

Yvonne Cappel-Vickery can be reached at

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