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SPRING 2015 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, COMPENSATION, AND FACULTY WORKLOAD

Leslie Curtis, Jeff Dyck, Daniel Kilbride, Beth Martin, Mike Martin, Paul Shick, Nancy Taylor, Charles Watts, John Yost

Goals and activities, 2014-15

• Responded to invitation from Fr. Niehoff, endorsed by

Faculty Council, to devise a salary proposal that included new peer and aspirant groups.

• Respond to the controversy over the conflict-of-interest

policy.

• Meet with departments to hear priorities.

IPEDS salary data, 2012-13 (red) and 2013-14 (green): Average salaries of full-time faculty

IPEDS data over time

JCU average salary as a percentage of the median salary among the 16 current IPEDS comparators. 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 Professor 94.7% 94.3% 96.6% 93.8% Associate 89.7% 90.6% 98.2% 95.8% Assistant 97.7% 100.2% 102.6% 108.8%

Salary trends (CUPA data)

Number and percentage of all faculty whose salaries are below the 30th percentile of CUPA averages (excluding library faculty). 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 75 (43%) 50 (30%) 53 (34%) 67 (41%) Percentage of faculty per rank whose salaries are below the 30th percentile of CUPA averages (excluding library faculty). 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Profs 41% 39% 41% 46% Associates 61% 38% 44% 51% Assistants 11% 5% 9% 17%

Department salary trends (CUPA)

Cost for department average salaries to reach the 40th, 50th, and 60th percentile of CUPA. 40th 50th 60th $355,028 $877,644 $1,351,062 Cost for departmental average salaries to reach the 50th percentile of CUPA. 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 $1.3M $1.1M $807K $570K $621K $878K

Individual salary trends

Cost for individual salaries to reach the 50th percentile of CUPA. 2013-14 $763,688 2014-15 $1,044,742

Status of the salary proposal

• Currently, the University uses two comparator groups for

assessing faculty salaries:

• The CUPA (College and University Professional Association for

Human Resources) “Special Study” of institutions that share AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)

• accreditation. 300+ colleges and universities.
• The IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System,

National Center for Education Statistics) group. Devised by UPG in 2010: Baldwin-Wallace, Belmont U., Butler U., Canisius College, Capital U., Gannon U., Hamline U., LeMoyne College, Marist College, Mercyhurst College, Niagara U., Quinnipiac U., U. of Evansville, U. of Scranton, Valparaiso, Xavier.

• Criteria included mission orientation; enrollment; MA granting; region;

urban/suburban; Div. III; endowment range; residential campus.

Salary proposal, continued

• Both groups have issues. CUPA is large and

unrepresentative; IPEDS is aging and lacks faculty buy-in.

• The compensation committee has spent this year

considering the elements of a salary proposal and developing several peer/aspirant groups.

• We now are resolved on devising a small peer group and

an aspirant group to establish university-wide salary targets (a true peer group would establish a benchmark at the 100th percentile), and a larger group combining peers, aspirants and competitors to establish disciplinary benchmarks.

• Timetable: first thing, fall semester for open hearings.