Faculty Compensation Committee
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The Faculty Compensation Committee has the task of coming up with recommendations for developing a salary structure here at SPSU that is viewed as equitable. We support the use of the Southern Regional Education Board Category III (SREB III which includes universities such as SPSU) data as the relevant market data to be considered. We also have discussed setting a base salary for each faculty levelassistant, associate, and full professor-- with adjustments to reflect market differences for various disciplines. Additionally, we discussed a process for awarding points to faculty for years in position and length of service at SPSU.
The committee is discussing how to give credit for prior industry experience by dividing prior experience into three categories (or bands). We are currently considering an approach that awards credit ranging from one credit for four years of experience to one credit for one year of experience depending on the nature of the experience and the category into which it falls. For example, in a job with substantially similar work and in which there is professional and scholarship activity, a one to one credit might be considered. The criteria being considered are based on Scholarship Assessed by C.E. Glassick, M.T. Huber and G. I. Maeroff, San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1997 and SPSU P&P 803.075 Faculty Activities.
Committee Members
In alphabetical order:
Bill Carpenter, Professor, Architecture
Steve Edwards, Professor, Mathematics
Pam Frinzi, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Tech
Rich Halstead-Nussloch, Professor, Information Technology
Elizabeth Keathley, Assistant Professor, Archivist
Becky Rutherford, Professor, Information Technology Degrees
Mark Stevens, Associate Professor, Humanities & Technical Communication
Zvi Szafran, Vice President of Academic Affairs
Sandra Vasa-Sideris, Associate Professor, Management
General Information Meetings
The first information meeting for all faculty was held on Friday, December 2nd, 2005. At that meeting Rich Halstead-Nussloch presented a power point program containing the mathmatical data used in our process. For questions raised at this meeting, see the Feedback section.
More information about this meeting and future meetings will be posted here.
Feedback
The committee values your comments. At the general information meeting that was held on Friday, December 2nd, our decision making process and mathmatical graphs were outlined for the faculty in a presentation. This presentation ran out of time, but gathered lots of questions in a flip chart "parking lot". Those "parking lot" issues have now been posted to the discussion tab of this page, and are available for comments. Just create a wiki account and log in to discuss these issues. Remember - a wiki is an open-editing platform. If you see a piece of information you disagree with, you have the power to log in and change the entry!
