To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "President Michael Hogan" < presmike@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: presmike@uillinois.edu
 Subject: Recognition of good work

Dear Colleagues,  

We've faced many challenges in recent years and I deeply appreciate how 
hard you've all been working throughout these difficult times.  I've 
stated all year that one of my top priorities has been to avoid furlough 
days and strive to find enough cost savings to restore merit-based 
compensation programs.

I'm pleased to announce that our cost-savings measures and careful 
planning on all our campuses has helped us in this regard.  We've been 
able to identify funding to enable the first campus salary program for 
our faculty and academic professionals in nearly three years.  This 
program authorizes the chancellors on each campus to use 3.0% of the 
salary pool for merit-based compensation adjustments.  The same program 
will be implemented for the University Administration.  This modest 
allocation is well-deserved for our hardworking employees who have faced 
salary freezes for consecutive years, as well as effective compensation 
losses in FY 2010 as a result of furlough days. 

Many of our collective bargaining units have contractual language that 
provides for pay adjustments based on the campus wage program, if the 
campus wage program is greater than previously negotiated pay adjustments 
for the same period.  I will, of course, honor those agreements.  For any 
negotiated groups that do not have such considerations in their 
contracts, the University will be willing to explore similar arrangements 
for this time period. 

I couldn't be more proud of our great University, which is made possible 
by our outstanding faculty and staff, who have worked hard to continue to 
make this university the best it can be.  We still have challenges ahead, 
but I know that by working together, continuing to streamline our 
administration and cut costs, we will continue to become stronger than 
ever.

Once more, I thank you for your commitment to the University and your 
ongoing support for our efforts to streamline operations and save costs, 
while also improving our programs.

Sincerely,

Mike

Michael J. Hogan
President
University of Illinois
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the President

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