Summer Teaching Salaries Resolution

Presented April 30, 1998; Passed May 8, 1998

RESOLVED, the USM Faculty Senate recommends faculty summer session salaries:

1. Be based on a percentage of the faculty member's contractual nine-month salary;
2. With a four year phase-in that would result in a summer salary based on 11% of the nine month salary for each 3 hour course and a full time summer teaching load of 9 hours accruing 33% of the nine month salary;
3. And a phase-in period that would require 8% of the nine month salary per 3 hour course beginning with the 1999 summer term, 9% in the 2,000 summer term, 10% in the 2001 summer term, and 11% in the 2002 summer term.

The Faculty Senate Benefits/Work Environment Committee offers the following rationale:

1. The Commission on the Future of the University's April 14, 1998, Report [Building Our Future Together] recommended that the University "establish and maintain competitive salaries, [and] increase salaries for summer school teaching...."
2. The proposed percentage based summer compensation system would increase summer salaries for USM faculty and improve opportunities for recruitment and retention of high quality faculty;
3. Percentage based compensation systems appear to be the norm for comparable institutions that the Benefits/Work Environment Committee surveyed;
4. The proposed percentage based system would reward summer teaching faculty commensurate with their full time nine month salaries;
5. Faculty compensated on the percentage system would retain merit based salary raises earned for the nine month contract year during the summer session;
6. The current stipend based system is inconsistent with the individual and merit based compensation system used to determine nine month salaries;
7. The percentage based system would provide a vehicle to rationally increase summer teaching salaries in the future.

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