I’ve heard from several places on campus that we shouldn’t be comparing faculty salaries to AAUP IIB when we look at percentiles for faculty salaries. I think that’s a perfectly reasonable question to raise, although I’m not sure I agree. We want to compare ourselves to institutions like ours when we try to figure out where we are. …
Anders Selhorst sent me the following as an e-mail, and I asked if I could post it here. He agreed. In light of the conversation yesterday, I think it might be helpful for faculty and College leadership to look at other models for our College administrative positions. There are other models that not only leverage …
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Some interesting journalism on college costs this week. First, an op-ed in the New York Times with some interesting perspective from Paul Campos, a law professor and former administrator: Click to read Second, a rebuttal/critique of this piece by Jordan Weissman, a journalist with Slate: Click to read
The Chronicle of Higher Education has pored through IPEDS data to create a comparative tool for salaries for both faculty and staff. It’s an interesting thing to play with. Here’s the Guilford section.
Gwen Gosney Erickson found an interesting set of documents in the college archives – minutes from the trustee meetings from the early 1930’s. As the Great Depression swept the country, the college was in some financial trouble, suffering from deficits and apparently unable to pay full salaries. Faculty proposed a salary policy – a combination …
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I received the following as an anonymous hand-written note in my campus mail. I think it is in response to our March 4th faculty meeting. The author requested that it be posted to the Moon Room. Have you ever witnessed a sudden eruption of violence? I have, and it is so interesting to see …
There has been some talk recently about the salary proposal put forward by some employees at St. Mary’s College. Here’s a link to a summary of that proposal: St. Mary’s College Wage Proposal Their administrative structure, staffing levels, and budgets are obviously different from ours, and the ratio approach may not be feasible or appropriate for …
Rob Whitnell shared this link to a blog post by Swarthmore history professor Timothy Burke, which has some interesting links to articles about Sweet Briar’s closing along with his own analysis. Rob also suggested that this article on the Metropolitan Opera is a potentially apt analogy to our situation. Interesting reading. Trading salary for access to …
Anne Glenn suggested I post this link to a November 1997 News and Record article on Guilford’s financial crisis of that era. Here it is: Article from the previous millenium Eerily similar to our predicament today, which could be seen as good or bad. Bad, that we appear to be repeating (recycling?) the past, but good, …
(The following is from Natalya Shelkova, chair of Benefits Committee. She solicits community feedback on the proposal.) Following up on the initiative that began last academic year (community forum on parental leave, the survey on parental leave), the Benefits Committee has put together a proposal which, if approved, would modify the existing parental/family leave policies …
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