A three-percent salary increase for all faculty is the main feature in a new tentative agreement reached between striking faculty and California State University officials Monday.

The CSU and California Faculty Association announced the new agreement that includes an across-the-board salary increase for all faculty, guaranteed due process rights in merit pay appeals and first-time contracts for over 3,000 lecturers in the CSU system.

If approved, all faculty will receive an automatic raise of 3 percent, retroactive to September 1, 1998. The old agreement, reached on January 26, had a general salary increase retroactive to October 1, 1998.

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