faculty pay

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What Happens to Recruitment and Retention of UC Faculty When the Privates Discover They Ain’t Poor?

Byuclafaculty

When the stock market fell and rich higher ed institutions such as Harvard looked at the absolute value of their loss, they froze in panic and cut budgets. But yours truly predicted that the day would come when the Harvards and Stanfords of the world would realize that they are still rich with what remains. (Their losses would be proud endowments for many institutions!) That realization is beginning to settle in – as the excerpt below from the Boston Globe indicates. Harvard is making various adaptations to increase its liquidity. It has suspended certain additions to its physical plant. Now…

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You Might Not Know It But We Are In the 3rd Year of a 4-Year Plan to Raise Faculty Salaries to Market Competitiveness

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Nostalgia Department: Just to let you know, below is a letter from then UC-President Robert Dynes to campus chancellors: September 25, 2007 CHANCELLORS Dear Colleagues: I am writing to convey good news with regard to faculty salaries. Now that the California State budget has been passed, The Regents have approved the first year of a four-year plan of faculty salary increases designed to raise faculty salaries to market competitiveness and to restore the integrity of the rank and step system of faculty advancement. In 2006, the Academic Senate systemwide Committee on Academic Personnel prepared a report on the present status…

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Interview with Jerry Brown Touches on Pensions, Two-Tier, & Faculty Pay During His Previous Governorship

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Jerry Brown was interviewed by the editorial board of the Sacramento Bee on Sept. 24. Various issues were covered. Among them were pensions, two-tier, and faculty pay during his previous term as governor (1977-83). Video below:

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Furloughs in the Bank?

Byuclafaculty

Here is an interesting question: What happens to furloughs at UCLA that weren’t taken? For state employees (those under control of the governor – not UC), a decision has been reached that such untaken furlough days do not expire. They last indefinitely “in the bank.” See: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/07/2943128/state-workers-furlough-time-now.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics Since employees who did not in fact take time off had their paychecks reduced nonetheless, it would seem that in the future they could take off days with pay for each untaken furlough day. (The pay reduction was previously taken from their paychecks so taking a day off would not reduce future pay.)…

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Proposal for a new faculty pay plan based on med school model

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Below is a link to a document from a joint senate-administration committee on faculty pay. The thrust of it is a plan to apply a med-school type compensation plan to other faculty, essentially a base state salary with supplements paid out of research grants or non-state sources. The document recognizes that for many non-med faculty, such grants/sources will not be available. I checked with UCOP to be sure this is not a confidential document before posting it. http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzVLYPK7QI_4MjBmYjJjOGUtOWYzZi00MjBlLWI4NDctMDQ4YjNiZTM5OWMy&hl=en&authkey=CMv_4-AO