Faculty Affairs Committee Meeting

January 19, 2007

Present: R. Byrnes, W. Shore, M. Ellard-Ivey, A. Leon-Guerrero, S. Starkovich, R. Kaufman

Business:

1. The committee discussed how to divide the salary pool. Steve talked about the importance of getting the administration to think several years at a time; he said that that was the minimum we want to get out of them. He wondered what kinds of benchmarks we’d like to use. Ron noted the importance of finding peer institutions. He said the CPI slide doesn’t educate the board about our predicament; it provides no historical context. Wendy agreed that peer data needs to be included. Steve presented multiple models for how to distribute the salary pool. In considering going with lump sums, percentages, or a combination of the two, the committee discussed the issues of compression between rank and compression within rank and wondered what should be addressed (or even privileged) in making our salary recommendations. The committee considered making a recommendation for tenure and promotion bumps. The committee also wondered what criteria deans would use in allocating the pool earmarked for their distribution. FAC decided it would go with one of Steve’s models, fine-tuning it via e-mail in the next few days, as President Anderson and Sheri Tonn need to receive our recommendation(s) by February 15^th.

2. Anna asked the committee for help in preparing her presentation to Academic Affairs at the Board of Regents at their January meeting. The committee agreed that Anna should ask for Academic Affair’s endorsement of the Philosophy of Compensation, provide a history of it from the faculty’s perspective, tell them the story of our work, ask for their continued support in our efforts, and tell them we look forward to working with the administration on implementing this policy.

Meeting adjourned at 10:50 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Rona Kaufman

FAC Secretary

Next meeting: February 12^th from 12:30 – 1:30 in the President’s Conference Room.