On March 30 Queen's University Faculty Association ratified a one-year compensation settlement. Members of the bargaining unit will see improvements in both salary and benefits through April 30, 2002. Highlights of the agreement include a two per cent salary scale increase; a $3,500 increase in both the assistant professor salary floor ($43,500) and the librarian/archivist salary floor ($38,000); for adjuncts, the FTE salary floor will also be increased to the assistant professor salary floor ($43,500). The benefits package will be increased by one per cent of the current bargaining unit salary mass. The parties also negotiated a $200,000 increase in the anomalies fund for faculty ($400,000) and no loss to the librarian/archivist anomalies fund ($5,000).