UPDATE FROM THE SPEAKER

Speaker of the Faculty Senate Monthly Report

JANUARY 10, 2008I

Since the first of the academic year, the TWU Faculty Senate has been engaged in numerous activities to give faculty members more beneficial information. 

 Monthly E-Newletter

We thank the Faculty Senate Secretary, Dr. Kathryn Tart, for her excellent e-letter sent to faculty members monthly as an update on Faculty Senate projects in process and topics addressed at regular Faculty Senate meetings.

 Faculty Salary Data

This month we add important information to the Faculty Senate web site. With the aid of Dr. Carolyn Gunning and Mary Ann McDuff alongside the efforts of Dr. Linda Ladd, co-chair of the Faculty Senate Budget Committee, the Faculty Senate is making available one-year’s CUPA data. Per the CUPA-HR web site,  

CUPA-HR performs “a national salary survey for participating institutions for full-time faculty at private and public institutions nationwide by discipline and rank. Starting with the 2003-04 survey, institutions can report salaries by rank in any of 332 four-digit CIP codes defined by the U.S. Department of Education. The survey collects both institution-specific and discipline-specific data.”  

This data provides information on average faculty salaries by discipline for the specific group of colleges and universities that are shown at the end of the report.  These numbers are used as benchmarks by TWU administration, serving as the figures to which TWU salaries are compared for compatibility with market.  It is important to note that the CUPA data are from a previous year, and that the market comparison used to raise TWU faculty salaries to the 95% of benchmark figure was done prior to the year for which these CUPA data are presented.  We thank Dr. Gunning, Mary Ann McDuff, and Dr. Ladd for their work in providing this data to the TWU faculty.

Please contact your senators for more information on any of the above items.

ALL SENATE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND

Next meeting will be January 18th at 10:00am on the Denton Campus SC 206-07