TO:    The Senate

FROM:  Faculty Affairs Committee

DATE:  March 18, 1990

SUBJ:  General Policy Statements Regarding Associate Faculty Stipends

DISPOSITION: To the Presiding Officer for implementation


Associate Faculty at IPFW teach approximately 30 to 35 percent of
the total credit hours generated each semester. While it is
desirable to reduce the number of associate faculty teaching at
IPFW and increase the number of full-time faculty positions, the
Faculty Affairs Committee realizes that substantial effort needs
to be made to address associate faculty concerns, particularly
low pay.

1.  Associate faculty should be adequately compensated. Salaries
    should be high enough to attract and retain competent
    faculty; therefore, the minimum starting stipend, which is
    approximately $1,000 for a three-credit-hour course, must be
    increased.

2.  Associate faculty who demonstrate a continued commitment to
    the university should receive an increase in stipends from
    one year to the next. Consideration of associate faculty
    salaries should be undertaken at the same time that full-time
    faculty salaries are increased. Unless special monies are
    appropriated by the state, it may prove necessary for full-
    time faculty to receive a somewhat lower percentage increase
    in order to increase associate faculty stipends.

3.  It is not unlikely that differences in associate faculty
    stipends may continue to occur from discipline to discipline
    due to market-driven factors.

4.  While associate faculty normally teach lower division
    courses, the Faculty Affairs Committee believes that
    recruiting associate faculty for specialty courses for which
    full-time faculty expertise does not exist is desirable and
    should be encouraged.

The Faculty Affairs Committee recognizes that dealing with
associate faculty concerns should be an on-going priority for the
committee.