The North Carolina Community College Faculty Association commends the North Carolina General Assembly for appropriating an extra 2-percent salary increase for community college faculty and professional staff in each of the last two annual budgets, thereby raising the average faculty salary to 79 percent of the national average.
In spite of these increases, the situation with community college faculty salaries, still among the lowest in the nation and in the Southeast region, continues at crisis level. As more faculty leave the system to retirement or for better-paying jobs, qualified replacements are increasingly difficult to find at the salaries currently being offered. Because of rising student enrollment, workloads are often unreasonable. All these factors seriously threaten the quality of instruction for our students.
Recognizing this problem, the Governor and the North Carolina General Assembly have adopted the goal of raising community college faculty and professional staff salaries to the national average.
Accordingly, the North Carolina Community College Faculty Association Board resolves that the legislature fund a salary increase to raise community college faculty and professional staff salaries to 87 percent of the national average in 2006-2007 as a significant step toward reaching the national average by the 2008-2009 budget year.
-- Passed by the NCCCFA Board August 27, 2005.