On Thursday, the Board of Trustees will meet for its Finance Committee (9:00 am), Education Workforce Committee (1:30 pm), and the Regular Board meeting (4:00 pm). The presentation during the Finance Committee will discuss compensation adjustments for employees generally, but compression adjustments for faculty will be delayed until the March Board of Trustee meetings. We wanted to explain why this delay would occur.
The consulting firm working with HR (Segal) recommended compression adjustments based on years in range (ie. F1, F2, F3, etc.) rather than years of service. The DCFA Council realized and explained that this would conflate “salary band” with “position” and cause anyone who had advanced ranges to have their eligible years restart after attaining an educational milestone.
Since compression results from years of service as a faculty member regardless of range advancement, the recommended adjustments would have worsened compression for many faculty. To avoid this, HR was tasked with acquiring data on years of service, and Segal would be tasked with incorporating this data into their recommendations. This extra work required delaying the recommendations until March.
Between now and the March Board of Trustee meeting, the Council will continue working closely with the Chancellor, CHRO, and the consultants to ensure that faculty compression issues are appropriately understood and addressed.
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