Saint Mary's College Of California

faculty welfare committee

The Faculty Welfare Committee represents the faculty on appropriate committees by participating in discussion and determination of financial priorities, faculty salaries, and fringe benefits, and by promoting and protecting faculty interest in matters concerning working conditions, such as office space, secretarial assistance, communications, and parking facilities.

See section 1.7.4.2 of the Faculty Handbook for the complete description of the FWC.

Membership - 2008-2009

Jim Sauerberg, Chair
Colette Fleuridas

Tomas Gomez
Joel Burley

Scheduled Meetings

Please contact Jim Sauerberg if you are interested in attending a meeting.

 

Documents and Studies of Interest

Salaries

• Faculty Salary Policy, as passed by the Board of Trustees, May 2005.
• Is the faculty getting older? Yes. Even accounting for retirements and replacements, the average faculty member is getting more experienced.
• Salary Reports
  Goals One and Three, May 2006. Excel File.
  Goal Two, May 2006. Excel File.
  Goal Two, April 2004. Excel File.
  Report to Faculty May 2006.
  Report to Budget Committee, October 2006.
  Have salaries grown disproportionally across ranks? No, at least between 2001 and 2006.

Benefits

• Benefit Plan Costs for 2005 (pdf)
• 2007 Employee Benefits Presentation (pdf) given November 15th, 2006 by CFO Michell and Director of HR Elliot.
• 2007 Faculty Welfare Benefits Presentation given November 20th, 21st, 2007 by the FWC.
• Brief Principles guiding the FWC re Benefits.
• If we compute the ratio of salaries to benefits at the WCC+1 schools, how does Saint Mary's compare? In other words, do we spend proportionally more on benefits than our competitors? (Answer: apparently not) All numbers come from Academe.
  Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries: 2002. Excel file.
  Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries: 2003. Excel file.
  Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries: 2004. Excel file.
  Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries: 2005. Excel file.
  Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries: 2006. Excel file.

Housing Costs

• Associate I salaries vs. Contra Costa Median Home Prices, 1995-2006. Has it really become harder to buy a home on an Associate I salary?