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We need to consider novel means to acknowledge highly productive research faculty and to provide them competitive salaries to retain them at OHIO. Within HCOM, many research-intensive tenure track faculty are hired as 9-month faculty. There are also a few highly productive researchers that are on an 11-month contract who usually cover significant portions of their salary. Some of these faculty request to move from an 11-month position to a 9-month position and compress their 11-month salary to 9 months, enabling them to bring in another 3 months of salary on a grant instead of just 1 month. This benefit encourages productive faculty to put salary on grants and supports retention of highly productive faculty by allowing us to offer more competitive salaries. 

Eligibility and Contract Considerations: 

This transition is available only to those holding a tenure track faculty appointment who meet one of the following three criteria:

1. If a faculty member has guaranteed funding to cover 50% of the proposed 9-month salary over the next two years.
2. If a faculty member has covered 50% of their 11-month salary for the current fiscal year and has guaranteed funding to cover 50% of the proposed 9-month salary over the next year.
3. If a faculty member has covered 50% of their 11-month salary over the previous two years.

The transition is also contingent on funding availability and teaching/service needs of the College/Department. Recipients of career development awards are eligible with demonstrated potential for future funding success as determined by recent grant submissions and reviews. Someone with a job category classified as ‘administrative’ would not be eligible. This transition is permanent. If a faculty member switches to a 9-month contract, they will remain on a 9-month contract. 

Procedures:

1.  Faculty member proposes in writing an 11-month to 9-month transition request to the chair.
2. Chair evaluates whether transition is appropriate considering teaching/service needs for the Department.
3. Chair confirms with the Office of Research and Grants to ensure the funding criteria met.
4. Chair gets final approval/support from Associate Dean of Faculty (cc Sr Director of Faculty Affairs) and Chief Financial Officer for transition.
5. If approved, the transition takes effect on July 1 of the next fiscal year.
6. Senior Director of Faculty Affairs will be responsible to update contract data and letters.

Rev. May 2023