Re: compensation

[csjhs@eiu.edu (Jeanne H. Simpson)]

Jane

All of these jobs exist on our campus, as partial to full assignments for
one person or another. Added up, it looks like at least 2 full-time
equivalencies to me.  Therefore I would compensate this person at least at
the level of department chair, which is the only job I am sure of that
requires one person to do at least 2 FTE worth of work.

Having said that only half jokingly,  I believe that we must work hard to
assist this person by pointing out that most of these elements get at
least 1/4 to 1/3 released time *each*.  The responsible answer is that to
hire one person to do all these things is to build in mediocrity, for no
one could possibly do it all well.  We need to stop conveying the message
that it is ok to demand this kind for work for low salaries, and that it
is ok to hire people with the expectation that they will perform it and
then to allow them to burn out and become bitter and difficult in the
effort to do the impossible under the threat of non-tenure.  As a
profession we simply have to start providing the honest answer. To me the
honest answer, no joke: pay this person at the level of department chair
at the very least.  

And at some institutions, deans have some of these assignments, such as
coordinating writing asssessment.

Jeanne Simpson
csjhs@eiu.edu