On hallmarks
The college lists the following as “Hallmarks” of the compensation plan: Transparency, Predictability, Consistency, Equity, Excellence, and Accountability.
Faculty compensation
I was part of a meeting on Friday with several members of college leadership, our compensation consultant Christine Riley, Jim Hood, and Natalya Shelkova (from compensation committee). In that meeting, we discussed whether the college has been using the wrong number for setting faculty salary targets over the past three years. We know that in …
Raise comparison between faculty and administrators
I asked for Guilford’s most recent IRS Form 990. I do this for several reasons, but I got started with the 990’s after the administrator bonus fiasco at the end of the Chabotar administration in order to have a look at our reported compensation for administrators. This most recent report allowed me to track the …
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Updated compensation percentiles
Back in February, I calculated an update to the Category IIB percentiles we used to publish in our Factbook. That post is here. The AAUP has now posted data for the 2018-19 academic year. This year includes both the recent rounds of raises in January 2017 (in effect for the last half of 2016-17, although …
Housekeeping information and communication page
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 …
Compensation Committee Updates
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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. …
Data requested at Faculty Forum on Compensation
From Christine Riley: As promised, I’m sending along the website where you can find the CUPA data we referenced. CUPA is the gold standard for staff salaries in higher education, and they are the only organization [that I know of] that surveys faculty salaries by discipline. This information is publicly available. http://www.cupahr.org/surveys/fhe4.aspx Look for the …