Highlights from the
Colorado Community
College System
2012 Basic Financial Statements and
Compliance Audit
Note: One of our community supporters, a finance officer at one of Colorado's largest corporations, has been studying our governing board's financial reports, at our request. The data below, distilled from the recently published 2012 audit, reveals that our college system has been hiring nearly three new employees per day for the past several years, and that several thousand of these new employees are administrators. This, while college leadership has repeatedly told adjunct faculty during this same time period there has never been money in the budget to pay them a living wage.
It is clear other employees in our college system have someone
advocating for them, as described below. Adjunct faculty at the college have not had anyone to advocate for them--until now. Join our FRCC AAUP chapter today or write to us for more information.
Administrators
and full-time faculty in Colorado's Community College System (CCCS) have the
Colo. Department of Personnel and Administration, Colo. WINS, the College and
University Professional Association for Human Resources, and the American
Association of Community Colleges to formally tabulate wage statistics, advise
on benefit packages and to promote their professional status. The facts below, distilled
from the KMPG auditor’s report for the CCCS
2012 Basic Financial Statements and Compliance Audit, * describe the value
of such advocacy, while revealing the situation for the faculty majority in
black and white. The 4,012 adjunct faculty (71% of the total faculty) working
in Colorado’s 13 community colleges have been working at below-poverty-level
wages for more than a decade, in spite of the below-listed highlights from
recently published 2012 CCCS audit:
1. Colorado Community College System (CCCS) revenue has grown to
$579.811
million.
2. Total CCCS revenue, all sources [tuition and government], is
up $36.417 million since 2009.
3.
CCCS employee count has grown to
8,600, up 2,966 from 2009; this means an average of 988 more per year; 82 per
month or nearly three new employees per day.
4.
Currently, there are 8,600 employees; 4,012 adjunct faculty;
1,728 full-time faculty; 2,860 are non-faculty.
5.
Price tag for the one-stop student center completed in 2012
on the Westminster campus was $5.253 million; it was part of the $59 million
spent on construction projects system-wide.
6.
Instruction brought $378.32 million into the CCCS.
7.
Of that $378.32 million in revenue from instruction, just 11%
was returned to the adjunct faculty who teach 70% of all courses the system
offers.
8.
The
CCCS spent $220 million on instruction total; of that, $62 million went to the
4,012 adjunct faculty, while the remaining $158 million was spread among 1,728
full-time faculty and other elements of instruction unspecified in the
auditor’s report.
9.
Less than 5% of CCCS revenue was from state appropriations.
10. Although
the CCCS Foundation support has quadrupled, according to recent FRCC Frontline reports, those funds are
“discreet,” according to the auditor’s report, and do not need to be included
in financial disclosures.
These
notes, from the Colorado Community College System 2011 Salary Survey
1.
Adjunct
professors comprise 71 percent of the CCCS faculty.
2.
Adjunct
faculty, average, annual income was [and remains] $15,500. [Poverty level wage
for Jefferson County, Colo. is $19,275.]
3.
The
top two concerns of the CCCS HR Department in 2011 were salaries for full-time
faculty and deans.
4.
The CCCS HR director recommended status quo [in
regard to all other salary issues.]
5.
The
average salary for CCCS deans at the time was $74,959 [plus benefits].
6.
The
average, annual, salary for the remaining 1,728 full-time faculty at the time
was $46,618 [plus benefits].
7.
The
average salary for CCCS vice-presidents was $101,845.
8.
The
average salary for CCCS directors was $86,703.
9.
The
2013 annual salary for Front Range Community College President Andy Dorsey is
$161,000.*
10.
The
2013 annual salary CCCS President Nancy McCallin is $291,000* up $24,695 from
her 2009 salary. **
*
From CCCS Headquarters, courtesy of Rhonda Bentz, Media and Government
Relations
**
“CSU chancellor’s lower pay not uncommon,” The
Pueblo Chieftain, July 25, 2009.
This
note is from the
Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration 2013-14
Annual Compensation Survey:
The
average, annual, before-tax income for a Colorado State Employee Custodian III
is $33,420 [plus benefits].
