Here’s an interesting article from Doug Webber, an economics professor at Temple, on the reasons for rising expenses and tuition at colleges and universities. It focuses on public institutions, and he sort of waves off private colleges at the end, but there are still a lot of relevant points, and private colleges must compete in …
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 …
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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 …
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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. …
Jane gave a presentation today on the February 2016 board meeting. Because there was only one scheduled presentation and it intersected with class time, a faculty member requested that Clerk’s find somebody to take notes and share them. I found me. Here’s my summary of Jane’s presentation, which included an accompanying slide presentation. Jane began by …
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Here’s a Chronicle article: College of St. Rose Plans At Least a Dozen Layoffs And here’s the official message: Saint Rose Trustees Announce Changes in Academic Programs to Boost Enrollment and Reduce Deficit People may remember that Carolyn Stefanco was a finalist for the Guilford presidency. The College of St. Rose is about three times the …
As a reminder, documents from the meetings of the Ad Hoc Compensation Committee are available for viewing at the committe’s intranet web page (Guilford log in required). Meeting agendas and summaries and other information is all there.
We held a community forum on a fair salary policy on April 8, 2015. There’s more information about this including other materials here: Salary Policy Home At the community forum, we provided large poster sheets on the wall for people to add comments. We divided these into four general areas: Principles – principles and goals …
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We held a community forum on a fair salary policy on April 8, 2015. There’s more information about this including other materials here: Salary Policy Home. The following comments were received on anonymous notecards turned in at the forum. Regarding concepts for Guilford to consider Staff: Using level of education to determine pay difference for …
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At our faculty meeting on April 1, the faculty approved the following two statements with regard to salaries and compensation at Guilford. 1) We call for the college to create a committee that will establish and implement a principled and just salary policy that would allow living wages for all employees, an equitable and fair …
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