FSPCC 17-18-07: Approval of the “KSU Faculty Senate Salary Compensation Survey”. The survey will be conducted confidentially by the faculty senate before the end of the spring 2018 semester using online Survey Monkey portal. Survey responses will be reported to the faculty Salary Equity Study Committee only in aggregate form to protect faculty confidentiality.
After extensive discussion and debate the action item was sent back to CC for further edits and clarifications.
Time was extended a total of 7 minutes.
Chair Gywali presented recommendations by Dr. Roosevelt Shelton for revisions to the KSU Ethical Principals and Code of Conduct agreement form. Senators will review, discuss with colleagues, and take up at the next Senate meeting. Secretary Rye reminded Senators they can go to General Counsel Lang's office to revise their previously signed agreement form and initial non-agreement with the section on intellectual property rights.
Chair Rye reported BASC did not meet due to lack of quorum. They finally received a list of current personnel positions and salaries after writing President Brown once again. The Salary Compensation Committee has not met a second time. She reminded Senators that President Brown indicated in the Faculty Meeting his preference is to proceed with cost-of-living raises and not try to incorporate the salary compensation recommendations into this first round of raises. BASC will continue to advocate for proceeding with the study so the data it provides is available for development of the FY19 budget.
Ombudsman Reilly reported faculty raises associated with September Tenure and Promotion approvals will be retroactive. It is yet to be determined if this will be a lump sum or stipends added to paychecks. Two additional faculty members received Tenure and Promotion in October, 2017 and will be eligible for retroactive raises also.
There was discussion of the various constituents working on salary compensation issues and possible redundancy. Reba Rye was appointed by President Brown to lead the faculty component of the Salary Compensation Study. Senator Gywali offered to assist and she is in consultation with him, as well as the BASC members. She assured Ombudsman Reilly that the variable data points he mentioned was included in her recommendations to the committee and had been reported to Senate previously. She again encouraged colleagues to communicate any concerns or ideas they have relative to the study.
Chair Andries raised the question of FY19 budget approval after the May deadline for contracts and the reflection of Promotion titles and salary.
A Senator inquired of the status of the Green Ribbon Committee's work. They are scheduled to meet again on April 30.
April 23rd is the deadline to register to vote.