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.

 

2009-2010 Membership

Joel Burley - Chair

Colette Fleuridas

Christopher Jones

Tomas Gomez

Senate Liaison

 

Scheduled Meetings:

Please contact Chair Joel Burley if you are interested in attending a meeting.

 

Membership - 2008-2009

Jim Sauerberg, Chair
Colette Fleuridas
Tomas Gomez
Joel Burley
David Alvarez, Senate Liaison

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.
• Faculty Salary Policy History Salary Reports
  
  • 2008-2009
    • May 2009: Salary Report. Salary Report to Community.
      
    • November 2008: Salary Report. Overview of Report to Budget Committee.
      
    • November 2008: Salary Policy report. Report to Budget Committee.
      
    • November 2008: Assistant Pay. Pay at SMC vs. other California competitors
    • November 2008: Tutition vs. Salary. Increases in tuition, salary and inflation compared
    • October 2008: Email to Faculty. FWC email to faculty about future of Goal 2.
  • 2007-2008
    • May 2008: Goals One and Three. Excel File.
      
    • May 2008: Goal Two. Excel File.
      
  • 2006-2007
    • May 2007: Salary Report. Excel File.
      
    • May 2007: Goal Two. Excel File.
      
    • Goals One and Three, May 2006. Excel File.
    • Goal Two, May 2006. Excel File.
  • 2003-2004
    • Goal Two, April 2004. Excel File.
• June 2008. Faculty Salary Policy Review Task Force Report
• June 2008. Faculty Salary Policy Review Task Force Report
• 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

• 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.
  
  • 2009: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2008: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2007: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2006: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2005: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2004: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2003: Benefits as a Fraction of Salaries. Excel file.
    
  • 2002: Benefits as a Fraction of Salarie. Excel file.
    
• Brief Principles guiding the FWC re Benefits.
• 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.
• Benefit Plan Costs for 2005 (pdf)

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?