Full-time, non-tenure track faculty will receive a 3.5% increase to their base salary this academic year, the university’s Board of Trustees approved in a six-minute special meeting Thursday. With the Board’s approval, the FTNTT faculty will also receive a 3% increase in their base salary for the 2024-25 academic year. Their pay will increase by 2% for the 2025-26 year.

“I feel strongly that it was an equitable offer,” said Sue Clement, president of the full-time, non-tenure track faculty for Kent State’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors. “It really was a mutually beneficial agreement. I think it also benefits the university because now they know exactly how much they’re gonna have to allocate for faculty salaries. So, it was a win-win, really.”

The university offered the same increase to the full-time tenure and non-tenure track faculty, Clement said.

Faculty earned a 2% base salary increase per year for the 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years, according to the collective bargaining agreement on the AAUP-KSU website.

Clement, who had discussed the proposed numbers with her executive committee, said she felt it was the university’s best offer.

All other conditions already listed in the contract for the 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years will remain the same for the next academic three years. Salary was the only article opened up for discussion Thursday.

During the meeting, university President Todd Diacon thanked Clement and faculty senate president Tracy Laux, along with the faculty as a whole.

“I will thank the two of you as a way of thanking all of our faculty, non-tenure track faculty,” Diacon said, “They are really the strongest of backbones for what we do at Kent State. We really do appreciate all the work that you do for our students.”

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