August 22 BOG Meeting
Please see the attached agenda for the next BOG meeting scheduled for Wednesday, August 22 at 10:30 a.m. in the Shawkey room of the MSC. The attached also includes committee resolutions, MU-MCTC annual agreement, the fee waiver report, and proposed revisions to BOG AA-22. http://www.marshall.edu/ill/07-BOG/AGENDA-BOG-Aug-22-2007.pdf
One faculty member did ask why we seem to spend valuable funds on buildings when our faculty salaries rank among the lowest in the nation (AAUP). Many people feel this way. While I think I understand how it works (bonds/legislative funding and construction initiatives are earmarked and not eligible to be used for any kind of E&G/operating or personnel support), I’ll ask for clarification and will be sure and post here.
In re: to another question from several people I had re: CUPA/AAUP salaries and our targets to market, I will discuss the process for correcting over-market salaries for new hires outlined in the Green book w/ the Provost at first opportunity and report back.
In the meantime, from my experience working w/ salary data for the librarians, I can say that a lot depends on the following:
1. your market salaries from AAUP & CUPA data presented by IR
2. your CUPA code (do you know what your code stands for?)
3. your years of service and rank obviously and
4. your target to market - or in other words - how far is your salary from the 86% of market target MU strives for?
If you are far away, expect equity since we still allocate the salary pool on the equity-merit (49-51) split….if you are close or over market, then don’t expect equity. This is a discussion that faculty should be having with their deans individually or as a group.
The other half of this discussion involves merit. I am sure you all have done this before – but once you obtain your OCR score, you need to calculate merit based on the % your college gets from the salary pool using the BOG formula from BOG AA-8. It’s complicated but I have done this many times for our faculty and can help you if you have any questions when we learn of our % pool figures in late Sept or early Oct.
