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.