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Report of the University Senate Budget Committee 2007-08. Update on the 2000 Senate Budget Committee White Paper. University Senate Budget Committee 2007-08. Suzanne Clark John Chalmers David Frank Peter Keyes Mike Kellman Gordon Sayre (ex officio) Marie Vitulli (chair). UO in Crisis.
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Report of the University Senate Budget Committee 2007-08 Update on the 2000 Senate Budget Committee White Paper
University Senate Budget Committee 2007-08 • Suzanne Clark • John Chalmers • David Frank • Peter Keyes • Mike Kellman • Gordon Sayre (ex officio) • Marie Vitulli (chair)
UO in Crisis • Ranking in national polls ➘ • Carnegie Foundation now places UO in the second tier of research institutions (RU/H rather than the top RU/VH for “very high” research activity) • Association of American Universities membership in jeopardy
Instructional Faculty is the Engine that Drives this Institution • Faculty salaries 10.2% of overall UO budget • Small expenditure on the teaching faculty directly or indirectly generates virtually all UO revenues • tuition and fees • appropriations from the legislature • grants and contracts • athletics
White Paper Goals • 2000:Achieve 95% of the average total compensation of our peer comparators • 2008: Achieve the average salary of our peer comparators at each rank
Progress Towards 2000 Goal Data for comparators from data reported to AAUP in fall. Data for UO includes raises for following Jan.-Mar.
Make Faculty A First Priority Payment for deferred maintenance on a corps which finds both its checkbook and morale in shreds and tatters must be the first priority of the administration
Cost of Bringing Us to Parity UO must add $10.2 million dollars to its instructional faculty salary base to achieve parity
Recommendations • UO should aspire to reach parity, without letting total compensation slip, in the next academic year. • UO must make solving the compression and inversion problem a top priority. • Any implementation strategy must address individual circumstances. We must not allow significant salary increases directed at a relatively few individuals convince us that we have solved the overall problem
Approaches • Combine state appropriations for faculty with a reallocation of tuition and RAM dollars and a concerted effort to increase foundation funding for meritorious faculty. • Supplementthe average comparator raises for full, associate and assistant professors and lecturers by 5.0%, 4.0%, 0.9%, and 2.9% each year achieve mean of our comparators salaries by 2010 – 2011.
Approaches • Supplement COLA and merit increases by reallocation of 1% of the prior year’s base budget (tuition dollars, RAM dollars, and lottery funds) to faculty salaries each year until parity is reached.