Staff & Faculty Meeting April 24, 2007

1. Staff & Faculty MeetingApril 24, 2007

2. Agenda • Brief summary of this year’s Quality of Life survey • Update on the work of this year’s Quality of Life Team • Where we are on salary commitments • ACU Staff Senate

3. Quality of Life Team Dana Hood, faculty, co-chair, Education Chantiel Wilson, staff, co-chair, Athletics Rodney Ashlock, faculty, Bible, Missions & Ministry Craig Churchill, faculty, Library Tina Fleet, staff, Counseling Center Evelyn Greenlee, staff, College of Business Nuria Hall, staff, English

4. Quality of Life Team Johnny Lopez, staff, Physical Resources Brent Magner, staff, Development Mark Phillips, faculty, Management Sciences Jeff Reese, faculty, Psychology Tracy Shilcutt, faculty, History Connie Yarema, faculty, Mathematics Resource staff: Phil Schubert (Finance) Suzanne Allmon (HR)

5. Quality of Life Survey • 398 respondents; 47.8% response rate • Last year was 445 with a 55.5% response rate • More than 1,600 responses to 15 open - ended questions (same as last year)

6. ACU Strengths(Values in parentheses are the corresponding percentages from the 2005-06 survey) • 94% have a good understanding of the ACU mission. (95%) • 89% believe staff & faculty mentor and model Christian values before our students. (88%)

7. ACU Strengths • 91% say supervisors treat employees with respect. (91%) • 89% are proud to work at ACU. (90%) • 87% would recommend ACU as a good place to work. (88%)

8. ACU Areas for Improvement Four central themes • Workload • Resources • Pay • Job-related stress

9. Update on work begun last year and continued this school year

10. Quality of Life Requests • Process for senior administrators to receive formal feedback (evaluation) by staff and faculty • Staff senate • Regular communication between faculty, staff and the Board of Trustees • Faculty/Staff Chapel

11. Quality of Life Requests • Childcare survey • New performance management system

12. Workloads • Complex issue • Different issues for faculty and staff

13. Workloads • Faculty Workload Task Force, chaired by Colleen Durrington • Faculty Salary Benchmarking Task Force, chaired by Terry Pope

14. StillPoint…Come to the Quiet. Answer God’s Call. • Better integration of our lives as we seek to balance between home, church, work and community responsibilities • Better understanding of calling and vocation • Better understanding of spiritual disciplines

15. Salary Commitment • Establish a regular routine of publicizing aggregate salary information and progress toward meeting stated goals. • Annual faculty/staff meetings • At least annual Faculty Senate reports • At least annual Staff Senate reports (proposed) • Annual report to Board of Trustees

16. Salary Commitment • 3-year plan completed (FY06- FY08) • Met increased commitments • Promised $4.5 million – delivered $4.5 million • Total salary pool increase of 16% • Missed CUPA-HR national averages; CUPA averages moved, as well • We will continue to work toward our benchmark

17. Salary Commitment • Determine what long-term salary goals/ benchmarks need to be. • In progress • CUPA has changed reporting capabilities and methodology • CUPA averages are nationwide and don’t take regional costs of living into consideration

18. Salary Commitment • Take appropriate steps to ensure raises for faculty and staff are not compromised by other university priorities. • 39% of FY06-FY08 budget allocations were salary increases • A top priority • Largest single allocation each year

19. Nonexempt (hourly paid) salary study Wage parity project • Appropriate benchmarks • Wage groupings • Structured methodology -Point ranking system -Job factors with weighting -Criteria for each factor

20. Future of the Quality of Life Task Force • I will commission an ongoing team of faculty and staff with revolving, but overlapping terms. • Primary responsibilities will focus on monitoring progress, administering the survey and advising ACU’s administration on an ongoing basis.

21. A summary of this year’s survey and other Quality of Life information can be found at: www.acu.edu/qualityoflife You can email questions or concerns to qualityoflife@acu.edu

22. ACU Staff Senate

23. Yvonne Akens Roberta Bender Laura Blake Sandy Byers Hazel Fillmon Tina Fleet Jill Fortson Steven Gist Karen Griffith Sheila Hilton Beth Holland Bill Hughes Terri Marcus Charlotte Marion Danny Neal Dempsey Peterson Alan Wright ACU Staff SenatePlanning Committee

24. Interim Executive Staff Senate Chair – Karen Griffith Vice Chair – Danny Neal Recording Secretary/Historian – Beth Holland Corresponding Secretary – Sheila Hilton Treasurer – Hazel Fillmon

26. ACU Staff Senate www.acu.edu/staffsenate

27. ACU Faculty/Staff Campaign • Thank you for 53% participation! • There’s still time to be included in this year’s campaign

28. 21st Century Vision • Received positive feedback from the campus regarding the Vision and the direction it will move the university • Lots of work to be done between now and August to craft a strategic plan of “big rocks” • We cannot make the Vision a reality without all of you! • Talk about it, pray about it, plan for it

29. Questions?