Process for applying for study leaves

From Beth Rushing: If you are eligible to apply for study leave this year (to take study leave in the 17-18 academic year), please submit a request for study leave to your department chair no later than September 1. Your request, along with your chair’s recommendation, will be due to me no later than September …

Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda, August 18, 2016

Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Thursday August 18, 2016 1:00 pm Gathering and Moment of Silence 5 minutes Agreement on Clerk’s Committee discussions and areas of confidentiality 5 minutes New Committees Google Drive Account 5 minutes Requests from Jane 5 minutes Faculty for Strategic Facilities & Space Planning Committee Adjunct Faculty for Compensation committee Plans for …

Racial Literacy as a Professor’s Responsibility

[From Beth Rushing] Beth Rushing highly recommends this article in Inside Higher Ed today. It describes a keynote speech given by Shaun Harper at the University of Pennsylvania at a recent AAUP conference and also other sessions at the meeting. Racial Literacy as a Professor’s Responsibility  By Colleen Flaherty, June 20, 2016

Clarification on compensation policy with regard to non-tenure-track faculty

Some questions have come up on how the proposed compensation policy might affect part-time, temporary, and non-tenure track faculty. Here’s what I think the situation is now: For part-time faculty, compensation is handled using the new compensation structure implemented by Beth last year. This is as follows: $4000 per four-credit course. $1250 per one-credit course. $2500 per two-credit …

Notes from informal compensation meeting June 17 2016

We had an informal meeting to discuss the proposals and environment for compensation at Guilford today. About twelve people came, including four from the compensation committee (all also on the faculty salary subcommittee). All were faculty except Christine Riley (compensation committee consultant) and Daniel Diaz (staff member of the compensation committee). We had a wide-ranging …

Notes from the June Board of Trustees Meeting

The following notes are from Tim Kircher, faculty representative to the Board of Trustees. He will provide an in-person report at our next faculty meeting after the fall term opens. [pdf-embedder url=”http://moonrm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/BOT4June2016Notes.pdf”] Download here: Board of Trustees June Meeting Notes

University of Washington struggles with salary policy

Here’s an article about faculty at the University of Washington trying to work on a policy to address salary compression. We have salary compression at Guilford, to be sure, and we also have other issues, many of which are bigger and more pressing than theirs. One major parallel: I see writ large in UW’s proposed …

Admissions Committee Minutes, May 9, 2016

Ad hoc Admission Committee Meeting May 9, 2016, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Bauman 210-C Attending: Steve Shapiro, professor of physics, Michael Dutch, professor of business management, David Hildreth, professor of education studies, Kami Rowan, associate professor of music, Garland Granger, associate professor of accounting, Holly Peterson, assistant professor of Geology, Arlene Cash, vice president for enrollment management, Erin …

Models for salary adjustments

The ad hoc Compensation Committee has been working to produce a formula for faculty compensation which I’ll be sharing with you over the next couple of days. We’ll be inviting participation and feedback as we head into next year, when we hope to implement a comprehensive policy with formulas and targets for faculty and staff salaries. …