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FAQ #3 - Compensation for Q2S Conversion?
Q: Will faculty will be compensated for the kinds of activities that this one-time Q2S conversion will involve? A: Since Summer 2009, the Q2S Budget Committee has been meeting regularly to try to answer this very question. The committee, who represents faculty, staff, and administration, recognizes that activities such as course conversion and student advising will require additional significant time and effort from the faculty above and beyond the time and effort required to teach a full load of existing quarter courses. To this end, the Q2S Budget Committee will make a recommendation to the larger Q2S Steering Committee that money be allocated to faculty for both course conversion pay and the added advising work that the faculty will be doing with our students during semester conversion. The proposal is, in part, based on data provided from other colleges which have also undergone the Q2S conversion process. A number of those colleges – particularly those that have organized – have compensated faculty for this tremendous undertaking (using a variety of formulas). The Q2S Budget committee will also recommend that the method by which these dollars will be allocated to faculty is to be determined by negotiations between the NCSFA-AAUP and the administration that are set to begin later this week. One extremely important caveat insisted upon by members of the Q2S Budget Committee in its "recommendation" is that this amount is for Q2S budgeting purposes only, that the final agreement will be between the NCSFA-AAUP and the administration, and in the end, the amount may differ from the amount contained in the committee’s recommendation.
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