The UW Campus has provided a central pool of $1 million total to be allocated to schools/colleges/divisions for FY 2025 Post Tenure Review Increment Initiative.

• The PTRI program is designed to provide departments with the opportunity to provide base adjustments to tenured faculty who have been identified through the post-tenure review process as having met or exceeded performance expectations during the usual five-year post-tenure review period in FY 2025.

• Departments will receive recommendation templates and will be asked to nominate eligible faculty for consideration.

• Total adjustments (the central portion plus any school matching funds) must fall within a range between $1,500 and a dollar amount equal to 5.0% of base salary.

• Campus funding support only for those fully or partially on 101 funding.

PTRI Memo

2025 Post Tenure Review Increment Program Memo

PTRI Eligibility

For the PTRI program, there are several eligibility criteria to consider:

• Faculty must have completed all required UW-Madison and SMPH training
• Supervisory Staff must be current with their employee performance evaluations
  • All midpoint evaluations due February 17th must be completed by the due date of April 1, 2025. Supervisors must also be up to date on any probationary evaluations for their employees

PTRI Nomination Form Instructions

• Please review your department faculty members who successfully completed the post-tenure review this year and determine who you would like to nominate.
• Enter information in all the white and green columns, from B to Z for each nominee.
  • Columns highlighted in green indicate drop-down menus; please select accordingly.
• If the post tenure review is not complete to date but is expected by June 1, 2025, please enter "pending" in column K

• The gray columns, W-Y will automatically populate, but will only show values if columns R-T are filled out in the appropriate manner, i.e., Yes values must be selected from the drop-down menu
• When writing the justifications in column Z, please use the following guide, making modifications where necessary:

The Department of DEPARTMENT requests a base pay increase for EMPLOYEE due to performance via the Post Tenure Review Increment program.

EMPLOYEE received a favorable post-tenure review on DATE. Their performance is excellent and the expectation is that it will continue. [INCLUDE 2-3 SENTENCES JUSTIFYING THE PAY INCREASE FOR THE EMPLOYEE.] These additional sentences will serve as the narrative that the review committee will utilize to determine the appropriateness and level of an award provided via this program. Please be sure to include statements of accomplishment, performance, impact, etc. 

*If you are submitting a request for a dual-employed faculty member, please describe briefly whether the increase awarded as a result of this program will result in an increase to total compensation, or, if the increase will only be added to UW compensation and will result in a shift in funding from UWMF to UW. 

• Submit completed nomination form via email to the SMPH Compensation Inbox: smphcompensation@med.wisc.edu

Timeline

• April 21, 2025: Program Kickoff
• May 5, 2025: Deadline to submit nomination form
• June 29, 2025: Effective date of increase