Once that happens, the new salaries would take effect Oct. 1.</p><p>The contract ??? which took 16 months to negotiate and was stalled by a one-month impasse ??? covers about 1,700 faculty members in such colleges as engineering, liberal arts and sciences, fine arts and education, or 37 percent of UF's 4,500 faculty members.</p><p>In addition to the raises, the contract offers new provisions for r