The UF Board of Trustees unanimously voted Aug. 12 in favor of allocating $25 million to raise pools for staff and out-of-unit faculty, according to a UF news release.
Board chair Mori Hosseini said the funding allows for the university to ensure that staff and faculty are “taken care of,” championing the measure as “the largest raise pool in at least the past 20 years.”
Only out-of-unit faculty members are eligible to receive raises through these pools, meaning faculty who are in the faculty union’s bargaining unit are not eligible and will have to seek raises through bargaining. Article 24 of the United Florida Faculty-UF contract with UF stipulates that “in each year of this agreement the University shall provide a raise pool allocated between merit and across-the-board” raises.
The Board of Trustees additionally approved $10,000 bonuses for faculty whose rank “exceeds expectations” in their post-tenure review evaluations. In the state’s first round of post-tenure review this year, the university deemed 89 of the 226 UF tenured faculty who were reviewed as exceeding expectations.
“We are very proud of our faculty and thrilled to be able to provide these bonuses,” Hosseini wrote in the news release. “We truly prioritize our people.”
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Avery Parker is an English and History senior and the Spring 2026 El Caimán editor for The Alligator. He previously worked as The Alligator's University desk editor, as well as a reporter for the University and Enterprise desks. He doesn't know the meaning of the word "freetime," but he can usually be found deep in an archive reading 19th century documents or tending to his four cats.
