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3-10. Appointment Policies An appointment (as distinguished from a reappointment, merit increase, or promotion) occurs when a person is employed with the University for the first time, or when a University employee is appointed to a title in a different personnel program or academic series. This section will cover some of the University and campus policies pertaining to the appointment of members of the Academic Senate (see APP 1-20 for a list of Senate titles); however, all persons involved in the appointment review process must also refer to policies contained in the Academic Personnel Manual and pertinent sections of this manual for more detailed statements of policies affecting use of titles, criteria for appointment, affirmative action, the review process, etc. A. RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEPARTMENT CHAIR
It is the responsibility of the chair, prior to forwarding the file to Academic Personnel, to assure that funding is or will be available for those departmental appointees who are funded from other sources. 2. Recruitment (APM Policies 500 through 570)
b. Employment Eligibility (APM Policy 530)The Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986, requires that all employees provide verification of eligibility to work in the United States. The federal government has designated the I-9 Form, Employment Eligibility Verification, as the document to be used in this verification process. During recruitment, special attention must be given to the employment eligibility of any non-immigrants in the pool to be sure that such candidates can obtain visas which allow compensation for services. Questions may be referred to the Office of International Services. c. TitlesThe title proposed for an appointee must be appropriate for the function and duties the candidate will perform. Special attention must be paid to the criteria for appointment in the selected title or series as outlined in the Academic Personnel Manual, Policies 200 through 283. d. Timing of Offer (APM Policies 510-80-c and APM 500-16-c)Chairs are reminded that UCI policy requires that offers be made before April 1 to other UC campuses and May 1 to all other institutions if they are to be effective in the following academic year. (These dates are the deadlines for formal offers to be made by the Executive Vice Chancellor or the Chancellor; therefore, dossiers supporting appointments need to be in Academic Personnel earlier.) e. Recruiting from Another UC Campus (APM Policies 510-0 and 510-80)University policy states that it is the obligation of those involved in the consideration of an intercampus recruitment to pay due regard to the welfare of the University as a whole as well as to the wishes of the particular appointee and to the effect of the proposed transfer on the two campuses directly concerned. Prior to the initiation of negotiation for an intercampus recruitment, the Chancellors of the two campuses involved shall be informed of the proposed transfer. Ten working days before making the formal offer of appointment to the candidate, which offer shall be in writing, the Chancellor of the hiring campus shall indicate such intention to the Chancellor of the campus from which the appointee will be transferring. In all cases, the Chancellor of the campus to which the appointee is transferring shall also notify the Office of the President. In 1997 the Office of the President issued the following additional guidelines in the event that one UC campus recruits a faculty member from another UC campus
(2) The salary offered by the recruiting campus can be no more than one step, or the equivalent of one step, above the faculty member's current salary. If the faculty member's salary is already an off-scale salary, the recruiting campus may offer the next higher step along with the same percentage increment. If the home campus is in the process of granting a salary increase to become effective July 1, the recruiting campus may offer one step above that increase, pending approval by the home campus. The home campus is permitted to make a counter offer equivalent to that of the recruiting campus. If both the home and the recruiting campus agree, higher salary offers may be made. An offer which includes a promotion is permitted if the salary offer is no more than one step above the current salary rate, including off-scale, as described above. If the faculty member being recruited by another UC campus also is being recruited by an outside institution, then either the home and/or the recruiting UC campus may make a counter offer higher than that described in (2) in order to compete with the outside offer. (3) Presidential approval must be sought if the package of start-up costs and other inducements (excluding housing assistance) exceeds $500,000 for faculty in the laboratory sciences, and $250,000 for other faculty. (4) In any proposed intercampus recruitment, either Chancellor may request mediation or intervention by the Office of the President, even when this is not triggered by (2) or (3) above. In the event that any unit at UCI considers recruiting a faculty member from another UC campus, Academic Personnel will coordinate the notification of the other UC campus. Please notify Academic Personnel as early in the process as is reasonably possible, and certainly before any tentative offer is made. NOTE: "Faculty" in this policy means members of the Academic Senate. Thus, this policy must be followed in all cases where the candidate is in the Professor, Professor in Residence, or Professor Clinical______ series, or holds a title as Lecturer SOE or Senior Lecturer SOE at the current home campus. f. Competing Offers to An Outside Candidate from Two or More UC Campuses (APM Policy 500-16-g)University policy is that the same level of salary shall be offered by each campus with coordination of the appropriate salary level to be arranged by the Office of the President. The following procedure is to be followed to make this coordination possible: When it becomes known to any campus administrative officer that another campus of the University is also recruiting an individual for a tenured appointment, that officer is obliged to inform the Chancellor who shall, in turn, inform the Office of the President. The latter will then consult with each of the Chancellors concerned with the matter and will arrange for the determination of a single appropriate salary. 3. Department RecommendationRecommendations concerning appointments normally originate with the department chair, who writes on behalf of the department. The letter of recommendation should provide a comprehensive assessment of the candidate's qualifications together with detailed evidence to support this evaluation. The letter should also present a report of consultation with the members of the department and should discuss the reasons for any dissenting opinions. In addition to the letter of recommendation, the department chair is expected to assemble and submit to the Chancellor an up-to-date biography, including a list of publications, together with copies of the research publications or other scholarly or creative work. If the chair sends a tentative offer letter to the candidate selected by the department, the letter should indicate that final approval of the appointment must come from either the Executive Vice Chancellor, the Chancellor, or the President. The following sample letter shows the recommended wording for such a tentative offer letter:
B. SALARIES (APM POLICY 600)
2. Rank and StepWhen establishing the rank and step for a proposed appointee, a department should give due consideration to the candidate's experience, accomplishments, and standing relative to others at the same level. Criteria for the use of "over-lapping" steps and for special steps, such as Professor, Step VI, and Professor, Above Scale, may be found in APP 3-40, Types of Actions, Appendix I, Normal Time at Step. 3. Off-Scale Salaries (APM Policy 620)Off-scale salaries may be used when necessary to meet competitive conditions. (See APM Policy 620-14 for a complete list of eligible titles.) Off-scale salaries for acting appointees are determined in the same manner as for regular ranks. If counter offers arise during the course of negotiations, the department should make an effort to document these offers. NOTE: Off-scale salaries will be gradually returned to scale as new salaries are determined at the time of subsequent personnel actions. For further information, including limitations to off-scale salaries, refer to APP 6-13, Guidelines for Off-Scale Salaries. 4. Effective Date of EmploymentThe effective date of an appointment for purposes of payroll and other record keeping is the first day on which salary commences. The beginning date of service for a new appointee, or of service in a new title for a continuing appointee, is the first day on which the appointee is required to be on duty under the terms of the appointment. This date will be different from the effective date for academic year (9-month) appointees paid over 12 months. In general, the following dates apply to regular 9-month faculty who are paid over 12 months:
Further information may be found in the UCI Payroll Salary Scales Manual in the pay and service period tables located behind the first blue tab. C. OTHER APPOINTMENTS
2. Joint Without Salary AppointmentsAn individual appointed to a faculty title may be invited to hold a joint without salary appointment in another department. Such appointments, while easily renewable, are made on a year-to-year basis. The home department may wish to solicit input from the affiliated department prior to making personnel recommendations. D. VOLUNTARY INTRACAMPUS TRANSFERS
2. Transfer to Another Department Through Recruitment ProcessThere may be cases where an academic unit has an FTE and seeks to fill it through the appointment of a person who currently holds a regular ranks appointment in another UCI academic unit (where, in short, the request is to "transfer" the faculty member but not the FTE). Properly speaking, this is a recruitment, rather than a transfer. In such cases, recruitment procedures should be followed. The formal recommendations must include an indication of the faculty vote of the academic unit making the recommendation, and must be accompanied by an indication that the recommending unit can provide the necessary FTE and funding. Questions of affirmative action search must be settled before the new appointment ("transfer") is proposed. Approval by the academic unit in which the faculty member's present appointment exists is not required. If the new appointment is approved, it will be considered an intracampus transfer, at the same rank and step as the faculty member's previous appointment, from which the faculty member will resign. The FTE vacated in the faculty member's previous academic unit will be subject to the normal procedures concerning the allocation of resources and the use of faculty positions. In all cases of intracampus transfers of nontenured persons in regular ranks positions, especially for those nearing the tenure decision, the expected timing of the tenure decision, and the role of both units (if necessary) in the tenure review, must be made clear at the time of transfer. References - University Policy APM
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