November 2024
Salary Range Adjustment
The 2024-2025 salary rates have been adjusted by a general range adjustment increase for the following titles-
- Non- Senate Instructional (IX), effective 7/1/2024
- Academic Researchers (RA), effective 7/1/2024
- Ladder Rank (LR), effective 10/1/2024
- Postdoc (PX), effective 10/1/2024
- Academic Student Employees (BX), effective date of 10/1/2024 for monthly and 10/13/2024 for biweekly
- Graduate Student Researchers (BR), effective date of 10/1/2024 for monthly and 10/13/2024 for biweekly
- Professional Librarians/American Federation of Teachers (LX), effective 11/1/2024
Updated Leave Delegation: APM 752 Greater Than Seven Days
At the request of Vice Provost Hansford and with the support of School Leads, please note that our delegation of authority for APM 752: Leaves of Absence/Leave to Attend Professional Meeting, greater than 7 days has been redelegated from the Vice Provost to School Deans effective immediately. This redelegation is intended to provide deans greater awareness of faculty absences to attend professional meetings, and to provide more autonomy in approving these requests, in consideration of any associated pedagogical planning and any reports needed during the period of the absence. Please broadcast this update widely among your faculty.
Department Chairs will continue to be the delegated authority for such leaves of 7 days or less.
Vice Provost Hansford will retain authority for this leave type for faculty and other academics outside of the Schools.
For reference, please see "Leaves of Absence" on the APO Delegation of Authority page.
Update: Leave Policies
Related to the above announcement on “Updated Leave Delegation: APM 752 Greater Than Seven Days”, the APO Leave Policies page has been updated to include the following language:
Appointees granted a leave, paid or unpaid, due to their own illness or pregnancy disability, must provide a return to work certification. An appointee who fails to provide a return to work certification may have their reinstatement delayed until the required certification is provided. If a faculty member takes a medical leave or a childbearing/parental leave they are not required to make progress during the period of time they are out on approved leave. For example, a documented medical leave of one semester during a three-year review period would require achievements in all areas of review consistent with two years and one semester. Please note that Active Service Modified Duties is not a leave.
Updated Templates
Professors and Teaching Professors
The Appointment/Offer Letter Template for Professors and Teaching Professors have been updated and are available in Box. There are two areas that have been updated. The MOP loan section has been revised per a directive from UCOP. Also, APO has updated the information on sick leave to reflect the new policy that will go into effect January 1, 2025. Please be sure not to use these new templates for any appointments that occur before January 1, 2025.
Best Practices/Clarity for Review of Adjunct Professor Series
To ensure clarity and alignment regarding Adjunct Professor roles, CAP is recommending that Adjunct Professor’s explicitly outline their understanding of their departmental expectations in their self-statements. Specifically, Adjunct Professor’s should be asked to structure their self-statements to address key responsibilities— such as mentoring graduate students or other departmental duties—and detailing relevant contributions accordingly (e.g., "My department has asked me to mentor graduate students, and here is how I have fulfilled that role...").
To support this alignment, the letter from the Department Chairs should confirm these expectations, creating a mutual understanding and consistency between the Adjunct Professor’s self-assessment and the department’s expectations.
GLAAS 4.12 Release
On 10/30/2024, GLAAS underwent another maintenance to implement 4.12 enhancements and features.
Please note, this GLAAS version has important updates pertaining to Unit 18 Faculty, ASE and GSR titles. Senior Continuing Lecturer configurations, salary schedules and revised template tags have been added.
Here you will find the list of GLAAS 4.12 enhancements (also sent to all GLAAS users via email on 10/30/2024 and a screenshot was shared on the same day.)
Follow-Up: Timesheets for ASEs and GSRs
In the May 2024 APO Announcements, clarification on GLAAS approval workflow was provided. The announcement also discussed the Time Reporting System (TRS) requirement for ASEs and GSRs. For additional information, please refer to the below email communications:
- Important Reminder about Timesheets for Graduate Student Employees
- Serving as ASE and GSR Instructors of Record
- New time reporting requirements for ASEs and GSRs
Follow-Up: Faculty Success Responsibilities
As a friendly reminder, School AP are responsible for updating their faculty member’s data within Faculty Success. This includes the following areas:
- General Information
- Permanent Data
- UCM Employment History
- UCM Administrative Positions
- May assist faculty members with other sections
APO will continue to lead the following areas in Faculty Success:
- Roll-Overs: Every July APO will complete what is referred to as a roll-over. This will create a new AY year for the upcoming school year within the UCM Employment History section. All individuals that a new AY year line was not created manually, will be included in the roll-over.
- Systemwide Salary Range Adjustments: APO will ensure that all accounts are updated with a note of the adjustment as well as the salary details being updated.
- Add new users: Please email APO at the Faculty Success email the full name, UCM email address, department, title, employee ID to get new users added into the system.
- Deactivate users: Please email us if an individual has separated. Keep in mind that their account needs to be fully updated prior to requesting an account to be deactivated. Once it is deactivated, it is no longer visible.
- Scheduled Teaching on large and small scales is also done by APO. Please email clima4@ucmerced.edu.
- Sabbatical Credits and Leave Management Screens
- Work requests/Troubleshooting
For additional information and resources, please refer to the following Archived Announcements: April 2024, Faculty Success Training; May 2024, Faculty Success Data Entry Procedure; August 2024, Faculty Success Resources and APO’s Responsibilities.
Follow-Up: Visitor Titles No Longer Requiring APO Review
In the October 2024 APO Announcements, final review/approval for Visitor titles was delegated to the Dean. This is specific to the Visitor titles in APM 430: Visiting Scholars and Other Visitors. These include the following titles: Visiting Scholar, Visitor (Graduate Student), or Visitor (Undergraduate). To clarify, APWs for these titles are no longer processed through APO. Schools should proceed with submitting APWs for these titles directly to Payroll Services.
Update: Faculty Success Office Hours
Faculty Success Office Hours will now be held every other Tuesday from 9-10 am. If the scheduled time does not work for you, please contact Christine Lima (clima4@ucmerced.edu) to schedule an alternative time.
Update: GLAAS Office Hours
GLAAS Office Hours will now be held every other Wednesday from 9-10 am. If the scheduled time does not work for you, please contact Kimberly Yanogacio (kyanogacio@ucmerced.edu) to schedule an alternative time.
