ARTICLE 25. MERIT AWARDS*

25.1 In each year of the contract the University shall establish a separate fund from which merit awards may be granted to Members as of March 31 of the previous contract year. The amount of each merit award shall be $2,000 $3,000 and there shall be sufficient funds made available so that up to a total of thirty (30) awards may be made in a given year. In any given year, all monies in the merit pool need not be awarded.

25.2 Merit awards shall be administered by University-based joint committees and shall be granted for outstanding achievement during the previous contract year in:

25.2.1 Teaching - up to eight (8) awards;

25.2.2 Research, Scholarly Work and Other Creative Activities - up to eight (8) awards;

25.2.3 Service - up to six (6) awards;

25.2.4 Any combination of Teaching; Research, Scholarly Work and Other Creative Activities and Service - up to eight (8) awards.

25.3 The factors that may be considered in assessing nominations or applications for such awards may include but are not limited to those set out in Article 20.A.1.2.1 through 20.A.1.2.3, or 20.B.1.2.1 through 20.B.1.2.4, as appropriate.

25.4 Each nomination or application shall be presented to the appropriate Joint Committee as named in s. 25.5 and shall include information, material or documentation necessary to support the nomination or application.

25.5 Merit awards shall be administered by two Joint Committees:

Joint Committee on Merit Awards: Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts

Joint Committee on Merit Awards: Life Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering

25.5.1 Each Joint Committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the University, two (2) persons appointed by the Association and a chairperson selected by these appointees from outside their number but from within the University.

25.5.2 All decisions of each Joint Committee shall be final and binding and the recipients shall be announced to the University community together with a citation of the outstanding achievement in each case.

25.5.3 Each Joint Committee shall consider nominations or applications as are appropriate to the discrete field of academic endeavor for which that Joint Committee is responsible as set out in paragraph 25.5.4 hereof. Each Joint Committee may grant merit awards in each of the four categories identified in s. 25.2, such awards to be distributed such that up to four (4) awards may be made in the category of Teaching; up to four (4) awards in the category of Research, Scholarly Work and Other Creative Activities; up to three (3) awards in the category of Service; and up to four (4) awards for outstanding achievement in any combination of the foregoing three categories.

25.5.4 The Joint Committee on Merit Awards: Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts shall consider nominations or applications from the following Faculties, Schools or Units: Art, Arts, Continuing Education (including Microcomputer Centre), Education, Human Ecology, Law, Libraries, Management, Music, Social Work, Student Affairs.

The Joint Committee on Merit Awards: Life Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering shall consider nominations or applications from the following Faculties, Schools or Units: Agriculture (plus Transportation Institute), Architecture, Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Education and Recreation Studies, Science (plus Natural Resources Institute).

25.6 No individual shall receive more than one (1) merit award in any one year.

25.7 Merit awards shall not form part of the base salary rate of the individual.

25.8 In the event that the total amount of the fund is not allocated, the remainder shall be given to the Libraries for acquisitions.

* No monies shall be allocated to the Merit Awards fund during the term of this Agreement.

 

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