Let’s Talk Money: Building Community Understanding of the Institutional Compensation System
An NSF ADVANCE Partnership Project
Goals
Build understanding of university pay practices and outcomes.
Articulate and implement a compensation philosophy and/or guiding principles around pay, including external competitiveness and internal fairness.
Improve communication of pay decisions and expand productive conversations about pay.
Strategies
Engage institutional stakeholders in a collaborative process to improve community understanding of the compensation system.
Enhance decision makers’ understanding of pay decisions and their ability to communicate to individuals how their pay is determined.
Increase faculty knowledge of institutional pay practices and how they relate to institutional values.