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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear COE Faculty,<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">The 2023 merit review process is now underway. The process for eligible faculty will follow the COE’s newly updated Faculty Merit Increase Policy and the COE Annual Review and Merit Review Policy Guidelines. The
 policy and guidelines can be found on our <a href="https://blogs.uoregon.edu/coepersonnelsupport/faculty-resources/faculty-evaluation-and-merit/">
Faculty Performance Evaluation and Merit</a> page.  To be eligible, tenure-track and tenured faculty and career non-tenure-track faculty must have an appointment on or before July 1, 2023.  Pro-tem and retired faculty members are ineligible for merit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">A brief outline of timeframe, materials, and process for eligible faculty are described below.
<u>More information </u>about department- and unit-specific processes for submission<u> will be provided by your Department or Unit Head.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Period of Review:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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The period under review is September 16, 2019 – September 15, 2023.  The merit evaluation extends back to the last merit review.
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<h1 style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Materials to submit:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">An updated curriculum vita –</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Faculty</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> will be required to submit their most current CV and to
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">use the highlight function </span>
to spotlight any activities (teaching, service, research or other scholarly productivity) that occurred during the merit review window. When appropriate, the comment function may also be added to expand on a highlighted activity.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<h1 style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Note 1:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> Faculty with no performance evaluation materials within the merit
 review period must submit the Faculty Activity Summary (attached) which is also Appendix A of the COE Merit Policy.
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<h1 style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Note 2:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> Faculty members who completed a sabbatical during the merit review
 period, must also include the sabbatical report with the merit review materials.
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<h1 style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Note 3:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> As noted in the recently approved COE Merit Policy, CVs submitted
 as part of the merit review should follow the CV template included in the COE’s most current Tenure/d Track Faculty (TTF) and Career Track Faculty (CTF/CNTTF) Promotion and Tenure policies.
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<h1 style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Please send the requested materials to your Department or Unit Heads by October 31, 2023.
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<h1 style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Review Process:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Unit or Department Merit Review Committees or Unit Directors or Department Heads, in conjunction with the Internal Governance Policies of the unit, will review the materials identified above in
 making Merit recommendations to the Dean of the College of Education. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.55pt;margin-right:5.05pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If a faculty member has appointments in separate units the faculty member will submit materials to both unit or department head(s) / administrators as appropriate. For joint appointments, both
 department heads should be consulted in conducting the review, and the final merit rating and recommendation would be submitted by the department head of the faculty member’s primary home.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.55pt;margin-right:5.05pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Department and Unit Heads will submit merit recommendations to the Dean’s office by November 14th. The Dean’s office will make final decisions regarding merit.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Merit increases will take effect January 1, 2024.]<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background:white"><span style="color:#385723">Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background:white"><span style="color:#385723">Assistant Dean for Administration, Equity and Inclusion,  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background:white"><span style="color:#385723">UO College of Education</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background:white"><u><span style="color:#0078D7"><a href="mailto:hollychr@uoregon.edu">dcarriza@uoregon.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">230 HEDCO Education Building</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">1215 University of Oregon | Eugene, OR 97403</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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