Talk:Faculty Compensation Committee
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This page contains the Parking Lot issues from the committee's December 2nd general information committee. Please feel freee to log in, add your own questions, answers, and opinions. Just post your information under each subject heading. This will provide a more organized format to the debate, and make accessing the available information a little easier. Remember to sign your posts so persons uncomfortable with the wiki format can contact you offline.
How will this affect non-tenured faculty?
Non-tenured faculty are not currently included in the salary adjustment data. The focus of the current project is to bring up the compensation of tenured faculty to a level comparable with their peers.
Is this an independent process from annual reviews?
A scoring system based on annual reviews was discussed at length in our late December committee meeting. When the committee reaches a consensus on how to incorporate annual review data, we'll publicize our decision making process.
Some people (who had to leave the meeting to teach class) want to change the distribution of funds.
This question, and others on the chart, addresses the core issue of how the decision making processes of the committee work. In the present plan, approximately 30 (the number may change) of the staff whose salaries are most out of line with comparable positions at comparable institutions will get a bump in their salary this year. More salary bumps will follow in subsequent years; however, at this time the comittee has decided to address those whose salaries are 20% or more under market value.
ET has concerns about competitiveness. What about national ET salary averages? How will this affect ET's ability to compete outside SPSU?
We have used the average of the "Engineering Technology" and "Engineering" numbers from the SREB data for ET faculty. This should allow you to compete outside of SPSU.
If we get engineering, how will this affect faculty?
Good question--we'll have to discuss this. Perhaps the answer is to move the target from the average of ET and Engineering (which is what it is now) toward the Engineering number over time.
MGT (a previous salary survey) completely miscalculated the library faculty's salaries. Will this be addressed?
Adjustment for the miscalculated library faculty data was not included in this first year round of salary adjustments, but will be included in the future.
Department Chairs Too...
What about Dept Chairs and all the thankless work they do? Certainly their pay is way out of parity with others at sister institutions. - no signature provided
I'll bring up the topic of Department Chair's pay with the committee when we finish with the general issues.
Zszafran 21 November 2005 12:48 (EST)
As stated in my email to the faculty, I did a first pass to adjust chairs salaries too. We'll talk about it at the ALC meeting on January 11.
Zszafran 11 January 2006 11:40 (EST)
Committee Membership
With all due respect to the committee members, I'd like to see more ET faculty representation.
Tom Currin
