The Department of Geography has had three successful promotion cases to date this year. Congratulations to David Carr and to Martin Raubal who were both promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, and to Tommy Dickey who was promoted to Professor Abovescale. The peer review system at all campuses of the University of California is a process of pre- and post-tenure evaluation. Advancement from Assistant to Associate Professor gives a professor tenure as well as a salary increase. However, while advancement from Professor to Professor Abovescale also results in a salary increase, its peer review element is international in scope.
The ranks of Assistant and Associate Professor both consist of four steps, while the rank of Professor consists of nine. Advancement to an above-scale salary is reserved for scholars and teachers of the highest distinction whose work has been internationally recognized and acclaimed and whose teaching performance is excellent. Except in rare and compelling cases, advancement will not occur after less than four years at Step IX. Moreover, mere length of service and continued good performance at Step IX is not justification for further salary advancement. There must be demonstration of additional merit and distinction beyond the performance on which advancement to Step IX was based. A further merit increase in salary for a person already serving at an above-scale salary level must be justified by new evidence of merit and distinction. Continued good service is not an adequate justification. Intervals between such salary increases may be indefinite, and only in the most superior cases where there is strong and compelling evidence will increases at intervals shorter than four years be approved.
Thanks to Mo Lovegreen for the above-scale information; for more about UCSB faculty ladder ranks, see the UCSB faculty compensation and benefits details here. FYI: According to the 2004 Federal Government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, those who work in the following ten professions below earn the highest wages out of 700 occupations studied: Physicians, Dentists, Professors, Lawyers, Optometrists, Judges, Physicists / Astronomers, Financial Managers, Chiropractors, Chemists. The top 10 earners among Professors are Economics Teachers, Physics Teachers, Medical Science Teachers, Law Teachers, Natural Science Teachers, Engineering Teachers, Sociology Teachers, Education Teachers, Theology Teachers, and History Teachers.
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