Re: Premium pay?

Jim Knudsen (jimknu@creighton.edu)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:08:27 -0600

Do faculty members have a choice about this type of teaching assignment? If
so, why not let the market work? Set the overload pay at the level that
creates enough volunteers to cover the courses at the distant campus.
Jim Knudsen
Creighton University

-----Original Message-----
From: E.B. Gendel <gendel@vaxb.woodbury.edu>
To: tch-econ@elon.edu <tch-econ@elon.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:26 PM
Subject: Premium pay?

>I will be teaching a course (the Managerial Econ course that for which I
>requested suggestions in a previous message) at a new "satellite campus"
>that is about a 2 hour plane ride away (I am in the LA area and the new
>campus is in the Bay Area). My university only wants to pay the "normal"
>overload amount - the same that I would get for teaching a graduate course
>at our main campus. The other instructors and I think that we should get
an
>extra amount because of the long commute.
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>If any of you or your institutions have been involved in such a situation,
>how is it handled? My guess (my hope) is that other colleges give a
premium
>for such an arrangement. Armed with that data, I will try to convince my
>university that they should do likewise.
>
>Please be as specific as possible in terms of distance/time and any pay
>differential.
>
>Thanks.
>
>E.B.
>
>E.B. Gendel, Ph.D.
>Professor of Economics
>Director of External Programs
>School of Business and Management
>Woodbury University
>7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
>Burbank, CA 91510-7846
>
>v: 818 767-0888 ext. 334
>f: 818 504-9320
>e: gendel@vaxb.woodbury.edu
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