Obviously, a lot is going on at Guilford these days. Some of that has had me looking back at salary figures in response to requests from Guilford allies, so I thought I’d take a moment and provide updates to the comparisons I usually do between Guilford salaries and our traditional peer group, AAUP Category IIB … Read more
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
Please add your thanks and comments for Community Senate for their thoughtful gift of chair massages at our last faculty lunch. We will pass these along with our thank-you card.
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 … Read more
I’m updating a post I made from about a month ago (see here) about the course releases and stipends we’re awarding. In some cases, people reported a different amount or type of compensation than was listed. Changes from the last version are highlighted in yellow. Also, in the case of course releases, several people reported earning them but … Read more
The College is dedicated to bringing technology training to the entire Guilford Community through a partnership with Atomic Learning. Training videos and assessments are easily integrated into Moodle, and allow faculty to focus instructional time on teaching their subject discipline, not technology! Available 24/7 from campus or home, it includes more than 60,000 step-by-step tutorials … Read more
The Davidson professors who led the faculty development workshop on February 18th have made their materials available to us here: Workshop Slides The library has a detailed Digital Humanities site up and running here: Digital Humanities at Guilford
Berkeley Salary Study – Inside Higher Ed I’m hoping we can do something like this here, although our small numbers of faculty may make statistical analysis difficult. (Link from Richie Zweigenhaft, commentary by Dave)
Mimi Smith-DeCoster submitted the following announcement for the community: Based on the preliminary results of the 2014 Faculty Survey of Instructional Technology, many faculty noted their interest in a space for our community to share ideas, ask questions, and build community with peers to support our use of technology for innovative, student-centered learning. To support … Read more
Hi, folks – In light of the changes announced to the tuition remission policy announced today, I’m trying to understand how the tuition remission policy used to work. If anybody out there has used the tuition remission benefit and would be willing to share your experience, please let me know by e-mail (ddobson@guilford.edu) or, if … Read more