Academic Policies

4. Guidelines Covering Summer Compensation for Teaching Faculty

Purpose

To establish a summer compensation policy for faculty on standing appointments.

Introduction

These Guidelines apply to all full-time faculty on standing appointments teaching summer credit courses, regardless of whether the courses are administered through Schuylkill, Continuing Education or the Associate Dean's office at Harrisburg. It is designed to provide guidance to faculty electing to teach during summer session.

Guidelines

For a course in which the number of registered students is inadequate to allow full salary payment (11% of the 36-week salary or the amount shown on the contract), we will offer a faculty member one of the following options: (1) teach the course at a reduced salary or (2) cancel the course. We will compensate faculty at the following rate:

Beginning with the summer 2003 semester, the formula for compensating faculty will be $102 per student credit hour for students registered at the end of the drop/add period in courses numbered from 001 through 499, and $125 per student credit hour for 500 and 600 level courses, to a maximum compensation of 11% of the 36-week salary or the amount stated in the contract. For example, if 15 students are registered in a three-credit, 300-level course, we would offer a salary of $4,590 or 11% of the faculty member's salary, whichever is less. In this case, if a faculty member's 36-week salary is $50,000, the faculty member would need 18 registered students to receive the 11 percent.

All contract letters will indicate how many students must be registered to yield a compensation rate of 11 percent.

All questions regarding compensation should be referred to the School Director.

If a course does not produce sufficient student credit hours to achieve the 11% of the salary (or other amount as stated on the contract), it will be necessary for the faculty member and the College to decide at least three days in advance of the start of each term whether the instructor will teach the under-subscribed course at a reduced rate of compensation or whether the class is to be canceled or offered to another faculty member.

Please note that the rate of compensation will depend on the number of registered (not scheduled) students in a course at the end of the add/drop period. This means that instructors will not know precisely what the compensation will be until the end of the add/drop period. Delaying the determination until an accurate count can be ascertained means that the faculty member will be compensated accurately for all the students in the class. However, this may also result in a delay of payment. If a delay occurs, each faculty member affected should contact the Office of the Provost and Dean at (717)948-6105.

Approved: Academic Council (04-01-2002)

Revised: Academic Leadership Council (05-18-04)