The Provost’s Faculty Salary Advisory Committee (PFSAC) is a University-level advisory committee established to provide feedback to the Provost on faculty salary appeals. The PFSAC is composed of senior faculty who assist the Provost in ensuring equitable and transparent processes around faculty salaries. The PFSAC’s advice is intended to balance feedback from deans and department chairs concerning faculty salary appeals.
The PFSAC will include senior faculty from diverse disciplinary and social backgrounds. Four of its sixteen members will be full-time, non-tenure-track faculty in renewable positions (i.e., teaching professors or professors of practice). The remaining twelve members will be tenured faculty. At least half of the PFSAC will include faculty with academic leadership experience (e.g., former center/institute directors, department chairs/school directors, associate deans, deans, or associate provosts). No one currently serving in an academic leadership role may serve on the PFSAC. The PFSAC will be jointly selected by the Senate Chair and the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs from a pool of nominees brought forward by the deans and by the Agenda Committee of the University Senate.
PFSAC selection will take place in March, and PFSAC meetings will be held in November. Members will serve a three-year term, with staggered start and ending dates.
For each faculty salary appeals case, the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs will identify a subcommittee of seven members from the pool of sixteen PFSAC members. Those seven members will be selected based on disciplinary closeness with the faculty member whose appeal is under review but will not include faculty members who have had any prior role in a particular faculty salary appeals case or who come from the faculty member’s home unit.
PFSAC members will engage in timely consultation with the Provost but do not issue a formal decision on faculty salary appeals.
Revised June 2024