Research Needed

An NCE faculty member recently reminded us that faculty needs to do careful research and we prepare to engage on balancing the budget for 2011-2012. I am sharing her list with the whole community so that everyone can understand the questions that need answers, and provide relevant insight and research.

1. What is the percentage of university expenditure on administrative salaries and staff salaries and what on full time faculty salaries? How do our salaries stack up with the comparative statistics that are kept on universities like ours (e.g. what percentile are we at for faculty and administrators when compared to like institutions?) Our Faculty and Welfare reps should be able to provide this info(Can you help, Michelle and Linda?) I know the university no longer uses AAUP stats to compare administrative and faculty salary percentiles; there is another data base and we need to have our knowledge refreshed on this.

2. What would be the plan for approaching the deficit with administrative furlough days and other cost savings? We ought to know this, and the amount it would generate before considering any thought of faculty contributions.

3. What is all this “other time” that we are supposedly allocating elsewhere?
Who would be doing that work?

4. What are the projected financial savings anticipated from the new calendar?

5. What would be the university’s process for acknowledging the donation of services by faculty if we should come to that point? We would basically be donating 1/9 of our salaries to the institution and would need acknowledgement for tax purposes.

6. How would we retain our adjunct faculty for the “upturn” ?