Faculty

The governor of Arizona vetoed an appropriations note that that would have required incentive funding for a performance bonus plan for the university system; faculty productivity factors were to be included in the implementation plan.

In South Dakota, the 1997 general appropriations bill authorized the Regents to distribute faculty salary increases at its discretion without regard for the collective bargaining statutes. The court, however, ordered the Regents to negotiate with the union on the distribution of salary increases.

Community college funding in Wyoming will raise employee salaries to 90 percent of those of comparative groups.