Middlebury Handbook

BACKGROUND

Faculty at Middlebury’s undergraduate college (hereafter, the College) have regular responsibilities for teaching, research, and service, and they are compensated for these responsibilities with their 9 month institutional base salary (IBS). The regular responsibilities encompassed in IBS are described in appointment letters, job descriptions as posted in original advertisements, and the Middlebury Handbook. At times, faculty members at the College assume various additional responsibilities that are not directly related to their regular responsibilities, or that are in addition to their regular responsibilities; these responsibilities include serving as department chairs or program directors, serving as administrative directors, as well as other additional responsibilities as determined by the VPAA/DoF. Extra service pay is made to faculty as acknowledgement of the additional responsibilities when certain conditions are met. In addition, it is important to ensure extra service pay paid from federally funded awards complies with requirements in Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circular 2 CFR 200 Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards.

POLICY STATEMENT

Extra service pay is incremental to the faculty member’s 9 month academic year IBS. The extra service pay is considered benefits-eligible taxable income, but the extra service pay itself is not considered part of the faculty member’s 9 month IBS.

The VPAA/DoF determines whether an additional responsibility assumed by a faculty member falls within the terms of his/her appointment and is thus included in institutional base salary (IBS) or whether the additional responsibility is eligible for extra service pay.

Extra service pay amounts are set by the VPAA/DoF taking into consideration the IBS rate of pay, amount of additional work performed, and/or consistency with payment for comparable work. For extra service pay charged to federal awards, charges cannot exceed the proportionate share of the IBS for that period, irrespective of the basis of computation.

Intra-institution consulting by faculty is assumed to be undertaken as an obligation under the terms of a faculty member’s appointment and requires no compensation in addition to IBS. Extra compensation for intra-institution consulting is only paid in unusual cases, regardless of the funding source. Similar to external consulting, intra-institution consulting requires prior notification and approval by the VPAA.

Extra service pay from a sponsored award from any source should be identified and justified in the original proposal if the circumstances are known at the time. Extra service pay that is paid from a sponsored award must be disclosed and approved in accordance with sponsor requirements, if applicable.

The Contracts & Grants Policy section of the Middlebury Handbook states that “Applications incorporating provisions for extra pay for research work normally will be approved to provide for up to two months of extra work during the summer. One month's summer salary is equal to 1/9th of the annual contract salary for the prior academic year. Exceptions to this policy must be approved by the VPAA/DoF, upon recommendation of the director of the Sciences, director of the Arts, director of humanities or DFDR.”  The VPAA/DoF will consider and approve faculty requests for 2.5 months of grant-funded summer salary when the sponsor allows such requests and there is sufficient documentation for that level of effort.

EXAMPLES OF RESPONSIBILITES ELIGIBLE FOR EXTRA SERVICE PAY

• Responsibilities different from or in addition to a faculty member’s regular responsibilities that do not interfere with the faculty member’s regular responsibilities. Serving as department chair or program director, and serving as an administrative director fall under this example.
• Responsibilities for serving as project director for a limited term project, including projects funded by grants or gifts. Summer salary and serving as project director for a grant-funded program that has academic year responsibilities fall under this example.
• Responsibilities for teaching additional classes and lectures that are not part of a faculty member’s regular responsibilities may, in rare circumstances, be considered as extra service. In most cases, however, course overloads will be addressed by adjusting teaching responsibilities in a future year, as specified in the official teaching expectations.
• Responsibilities for work performed outside a faculty member’s department or as part of a separate or remote operation that is in addition to the faculty member’s regular responsibilities. Intra-institution consulting, such as a member of one department serving as an external evaluator on a federal grant awarded to another department, falls under this example.
• Additional responsibilities in the event of an extraordinary circumstance that significantly increases workload.

DEFINITIONS

Institutional Base Salary (IBS) is the annual compensation paid by Middlebury for an individual’s appointment responsibilities, whether that individual’s time is spent on teaching, research, service, or other activities. For faculty members, IBS is based on a 9 months academic year.

Regular Responsibilities for teaching, research, service, or other activities are the duties compensated by IBS. Regular responsibilities are described in appointment letters and the Middlebury handbook.