Resolution about Pay for Adjuncts and Fulltime Faculty

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Resolution about Pay for Adjuncts and Full-time
Faculty

• Faculty Senate
• May 3, 2005

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Resolution

• Effective beginning the Fall semester 2005,
• part-time pay for 4-hour courses should be
  increased by 1/3 of the 3-hour course rate. This
  would apply for every term.
• during the Summer term, full-time pay for 4-hour
  courses should be increased by 1/3 of the 3-hour
  adjunct pay rate
• In other words, pay people for the work they do.

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• For a 2-hour course, adjuncts are paid at 2/3 of
  the 3-hour course rate.
• Science labs are paid at the 3-hour course rate
  because the faculty spend 3 hours teaching the
  lab.
• To be consistent, 4-hour courses should be paid
  1/3 more than 3-hour courses.

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Spring 2005 Financial Impact
167 116,900 207,080

• Number of 4-hour courses taught by adjunct
  faculty college-wide
• Amount of money not paid to adjuncts for extra
  hour
• Amount of money paid by students for extra hour

Why arent adjuncts being paid fairly?
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Academic Impact

• Both during the school year and the summer,
  full-time faculty are avoiding 4-hr courses
  (mostly Learning Support) leaving those courses
  to adjunct instructors.
• Adjunct instructors may be good instructors but
  do not have office hours which are especially
  important for Learning Support students

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of Learning Support Sections Taught by Adjuncts
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of Other 4-hour Sections Taught by Adjuncts
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Pay them, and they will come.

• During the summer, full-time faculty are paid on
  a per course basis, so a 4-hr course should be
  paid differently than a 3-hr course adjunct pay
  for the 4th hour.
• This will encourage full-time faculty to
  continue to be involved in the 4-hour courses,
  giving students more access to their instructors.

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Resolution

• Effective beginning the Fall semester 2005,
• Full-time faculty receive adjunct pay beginning
  with their 31st credit hour in a 10-month
  contract.

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30 hours is Clearly the Standard
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• Since the average number of hours for a semester
  is 15, nearly all of the faculty are already
  working only 30 hours per year.
• The number of hours is a national standard. See
  data from related resolution.

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• This would benefit all disciplines.
• If you currently teach 10 courses, teaching an
  extra course would earn overload pay for 3 hours
  instead of 1 hour.