CONSISTENT WITH FACULTY RESPONDENT OPINIONS THAT TEACHING ACTIVITIES WERE NOT REALLY RELATED TO THEIR SALARY LEVELS, THE RESPONSES FOR THIS QUESTION INDICATE THAT RESPONDENTS FELT SIMILARLY ABOUT THEIR SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES AND THEIR SALARY LEVELS. FACULTY COMMENTS INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING:

o I am a productive scholar, and these activities have made absolutely NO difference in my salary. Once when I had received a grant and asked to be paid the $1,500 for submitting a successful grant proposal (this was in KSU's policies, but to my knowledge nobody has ever received this award), I was told "nobody asked you to do that." My response was that nobody had to ask, which should certainly be worth consideration, but this is just one example of how policies for compensating faculty have not been followed.

There is no evidence (or I don't have any information) that indicates any of the above demonstrated creative and scholarly abilities are considered when salary raises are considered. The PI and senior personnel of grants usually receive summer salary or stipend or release time from the grant.

o I don't recognize pay adjustments being made for any of these activities unless it is in conjunction with promotion.

o Merit salary increases have not yet been implemented at KSU.

o Only rewarded at promotion.

o No work that our department has ever done has ever earned us any pay raises. Therefore, the answer can only be Not At All.

QUESTION 22: Thinking now about service activities, to what extent would you say that KSU salaries reflect merit equity for the following?

Table 10 presents the distribution of the responses to this series of items pertaining to service activities. The number of faculty members who declined to answer each item varied, but ranged between 13 and 18 of the 67 total respondents.