Policy requiring staff members to produce a letter of offer from another employer in order to get a counter offer from UIC

There was a request to change the policy requiring staff members to produce a letter of offer from another employer in order to get a counter offer from UIC.

• This policy previously applied to faculty and staff, but it was changed last spring for faculty, so a college/department now may make a counter offer to a faculty member without the faculty member having to produce a letter of offer from another employer. However, given the number of staff at the university, the different market in which they operate, and the variety of different kinds of work that they do, the change in policy was not extended to staff.