Presidents have been granted the discretion to place new hires at a competitive level on the salary scale. The Presidents will be advised by a variance committee from faculty senates. The discretion will only be used in areas where institutions have been having difficulty hiring. Community college teaching faculty are the only group of state employees who have not been given a pay raise or a COLA increase in the last biennium. Faculty Workload Surveys will be distributed this semester.
Faculty is urged to take the time to fill out the surveys accurately.
It will be necessary for each faculty member to justify the work which is done. According to Jane Nichols, the Board would like to evaluate if the extravagant use of overload by faculty indicates that workload should increase. Upper division course workload is under consideration with no definite strategy reached. The Compensation and Benefits Committee will work toward a policy on this issue. A criminal investigation by the Attorney General's Office into the admissions practices of CCSN is underway.