Thank you to everyone who responded to my question about extra
compensation. Now I have another pressing question for you. Have any of you
heard of policies that make a distinction between "faculty academic salary"
and "faculty base institutional salary"?  "Faculty base academic salary" is
defined as salary specified in the faculty contract and "faculty base
institutional salary" is defined (by one of our faculty members) as 130% of
the faculty base academic salary. One of our faculty members is proposing
that we reexamine our current practices (using the faculty academic salary
as base) and instead use this faculty base institutional salary in
calculating compensation.  For example, "additional compensation for summer
work on federal sponsored projects would be at the faculty monthly base
salary (130% of the monthly academic salary) rate." Is there legitimacy to
any of this? Your comments would be very much appreciated. I need a solid
rationale for why we cannot (or can) go down this path. I am familiar with
A-21 and follow it, but this new definition of base salary is something I
never heard of.Thank you for any advice you can give me.

Donna Berger, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Academic Grants
Marist College
Phone: 845-575-3670

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