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Senior Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives Ann Schmiesing and Professor Emerita Shelly Miller, ������ý���� Faculty Assembly immediate past chair, have submitted the report of the 25-member��Chancellor’s Faculty Salary Task Force to Chancellor Justin Schwartz.��

“We want to thank the members of the committee, who undertook a highly substantive and analytical look at salary competitiveness for tenure-track and teaching/clinical faculty at CU ������ý����,” said Schmiesing.

Schwartz convened the task force in April 2025 in partnership with the BFA, whose fall 2024 survey showed compensation as the top priority for faculty. The task force was charged with making recommendations for compensation options and strategies, with an emphasis on improving the market competitiveness of faculty salaries.

The task force aligned its recommendations with CU ������ý����’s��compensation philosophy and the provisions of the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The report provides guidance for making near-term salary investments, identifies options for enhancing faculty-specific compensation expertise and outlines steps to ensure data-informed decision-making with respect to faculty salaries. It also recommends ways to maintain tenure- and promotion-raise competitiveness, increase retention-raise transparency and address factors such as teaching loads that are interrelated with salary issues.

“Our tenure-track, teaching and clinical faculty can have confidence that this effort was transparent, data-informed and multi-faceted,” said Miller. “We invite all faculty to review the�� and to continue to give the BFA, provost and chancellor feedback on faculty salary issues.”

“I want to thank Senior Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives Ann Schmiesing, BFA Immediate Past Chair and Professor Emerita Shelly Miller, and the committee for their focus and cohesion in one of the most comprehensive efforts we’ve ever undertaken on faculty salaries,” said Schwartz. “I look forward to working with the BFA, Provost Stevens, and the schools and colleges to evaluate the committee’s recommendations and prioritize them for implementation.”��

“These steps will mean that we will be setting a clearer and permanent new direction and methodology on salary setting and awarding—one that will serve our faculty for years to come,” said Schwartz.��