At the most recent Faculty Affairs Policy Committee (FAPC) meeting held on Friday 13 Jan 2012, FAPC charged me as committee chair to contact the Interim University President to indicate that the members of the 2011-2012 recommend that academic year faculty have the option of being paid according to a 10-month schedule or a 12-month schedule.
The following notes provide you contextual information.
1. The committee would like for each faculty member to be able to independently select the 10-month schedule or the 12-month schedule and does not recommend the discontinuance of the 10-month option but rather the introduction of a 12-month schedule as a second option.
2. Not all academic departments were consulted by FAPC members, so the position statement is held by the FAPC members present at the meeting (12 of 13 members were present) and does not necessarily represent the position of all the faculty they represent in all cases.
3. Ms. Susan Allen has been a source for information on deliberation by centralized payroll administators who have been considering the possibility of all employees being paid every two weeks (biweekly) where a subset of the centralized payroll administrations have expressed concern of implementing biweekly pay for faculty.
4. In 2005, President Dorothy Leland prepared and circulated a Faculty Pay Question and Answer document (available at http://info.gcsu.edu/intranet/univ_senate/SCs2011-2012/FAPC/FacultyPayQ&ANov2005.htm ) summarizing her findings when she explored with relevant USG Staff the possibility of offering alternative pay options to faculty. In 2005, a different payroll system was in use and payroll was decentralized and thus some of the questions are no longer relevant and may have different answers given the current payroll software (ADP) in use now.
Let me know if you require clarification of this information.
-Craig
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Craig Turner
Professor of Mathematics
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061
478.445.0973
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