Chicago Community Colleges to Tie Some Faculty Members’ Pay to Performance

Chicago Community Colleges to Tie Some Faculty Members’ Pay to Performance
The seven colleges of the City Colleges of Chicago system have joined a small but growing number of public colleges around the nation in linking at least some faculty pay to performance. Under the terms of a new contract with the union representing the Chicago community-college system’s part-time adult-education instructors, the instructors will no longer receive automatic 3-percent pay increases for staying in the system, but they can receive bonuses of up to about 8 percent tied to the performance of their students. Contracts linking faculty pay to performance are now also in place at Kent State University and the University of Akron, in Ohio. Texas A&M University has established a controversial program that gives professors cash bonuses based on student evaluations.

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