Effective teaching ability!

Skill and productivity make no difference in my experience. Most of us have been paid the minimum for our rank, and kept there for years.

I don't have any knowledge about raises and the reasons for them. I do know that “merit” is not easy to measure in my field.

The hiring and evaluation system is set up to promote and reward those faculty members by providing the necessary resources. This includes supporting them with opportunities to teach, write grants, and have staffing to advance their careers. Those opportunities are not equitable and the evaluations are not accurate.

These opinions are admittedly based on speculation and cannot be verified in relationship to campus-wide data. However, anecdotally there seems to problems in this area. Chairs have such varying criteria for merit evaluations that a data driven analysis is challenging.

There is no merit based salary increase throughout my stay at KSU.

There is no evidence (or I don't have any information) that indicates any of the above demonstrated teaching abilities are considered when salary raises are considered. Basically we have not had merit raise for many years. But it would be very important for the University to recognize high performance as stated above for merit equity. There are many innovative, high-performing faculty whose salaries are not nearly close to the published salary ranges.

Salary adjustments have not been given based on merit as I ever recall in the past 18 years.

Salary adjustments have been made equitably across the board.

I do not have enough information to answer. I do know that I have the lowest salary in my department and I am doing far more than my peers in regards to improving student learning.

Merit salary increases have not yet been implemented at KSU.

Merit is only rewarded by promotions, which bring raises. Otherwise it doesn't seem to matter as long as you do enough to avoid being fired.

My pay, nor others in my department, has ever been modified due to merit. Therefore, the response to these questions can only be Not At All.

I have never seen this demonstrated. The pay scale is determined by level of friendship and clique affiliation.