Mess with our pay!

The business school at OSU has decided to change the way they pay faculty for online classes and summer Face-to-Face (FtF) classes. The changes were presented as a fait accompli. No discussion, no recourse, we are in charge and you are serfs. It does not appear that the administration thought this through and considered the potential consequences. The first is that any reduction in pay for classes is not going to be well met. The faculty most affected are the lowest paid, instructors and clinical faculty. They also do not seem to have considered the increase in the number of administrators and staff over the last couple of years. It appears to the instructors that they are having money taken away so that the administrators can do less work. The increases in administrators and staff is seen as the reason the cost of college is uncontrollably increasing. Faculty have calculated the cost of teaching online and summer classes with this change. Many faculty will not be teaching online in the future. Many of us will not be teaching summer FtF classes. The change reduced my pay by approximately $8000 (it may be a contract violation). I now have no incentive to teach in the summer. The most important consequence is that the university is not the highest paying employer in the region or state. People do not like to change jobs and move but will do so if there is enough animosity. This change creates a lot of hostility. The good thing is that I will have the entire summer off. My spouse has already said that if I am going to be around that long in the summer, we need to have boundaries. Love her!