The organizers of the Day of Testimonies would like to provide the opportunity to comment on the DoT Report (available here) and/or to share your testimonies based on the four queries that were used to organize the event: Here are the four queries: What do you love about Guilford? What are you struggling with at Guilford … Read more
I’ve set up a page regarding the outsourcing of housekeeping with information and links to documents. That page is here: Housekeeping I’ve turned on comments there, so people can discuss or ask questions. I thought that might be perhaps less chaotic than a multi-step e-mail chain. I also thought it would be more accessible to … Read more
I did a little more work on the regressive nature of Guilford’s proposed new parking fee, following up on my previous post. A flat fee will have a bigger impact on low-salary employees because it’s a larger percentage of their pay. Because some of our other costs (e.g. healthcare, capped social security) are also regressive, … Read more
Flat fees, such as our healthcare costs or the recently proposed parking fee, provide a much more significant burden on low-wage employees than on high-wage employees. This is just basic math. When a cost or fee is constant, then it represents a higher percentage of income for a low-wage employee than for a high-wage employee. … Read more
Please feel free to discuss the Guilford Edge proposal and its various parts here. You may post anonymously if you wish. Comments from anonymous and first-time posters will be held by the site software moderation until I can approve them. The Guilford Edge website is here. Feedback collected by the Edge team about the changes … Read more
Compensation Committee has asked me to share with the community the following items. These are located on the Committees@Guilford Google Drive folder in the Faculty Meetings section under the September 28 2016 Meeting. The items are: The Faculty Salary subcommittee’s report from last May 2016 The updated recommendations from the subcommittee from September 2016 A set of slides … Read more
As a reminder, there is a site for the Strategic Priorities Oversight Committee (SPOC). if you want to see what they are up to, please go see it. Ice added a link to the SPOC to the Useful Links page on the Moon Room here too.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
I am deeply troubled by systems of oppression, racism, violence, and inequities. I am grateful to all of those who work here to uncover, dismantle, repair and transform oppressive systems and actions into just and equitable systems and actions. I recognize and I participate in this hard work every single day on campus, in schools … Read more