Pennsylvania Act 1951-600 — STATE COLLEGE FACULTY COMPENSATION LAW

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STATE COLLEGE FACULTY COMPENSATION LAW
             Act of Jan. 18, (1952) 1951, P.L. 2111, No. 600          Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for minimum compensation and increments for
        administrators and members of the faculty of State Colleges;
        providing for leaves of absence; imposing certain duties upon
        the Boards of Trustees and Presidents of State Colleges and
        the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and repealing
        inconsistent laws. (Title amended June 19, 1961, P.L.451,
        No.224)

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Salary Payments.--Compensation of each member of
     the faculty of each State Teachers College shall be payable in
     nine (9) equal monthly installments during the regular college
     year.
        Section 2.  Classification and Salaries.--Each person
     heretofore or hereafter appointed to a position as an
     administrator or member of the faculty of a State College within
     the classifications hereinafter set forth may be paid in
     accordance with the following minimum bi-weekly range for
     services rendered during the regular nine month college year.
     Each person employed for the full nine month college year may
     receive either twenty (20) or twenty-six (26) bi-weekly salary
     payments. In no case shall any faculty member receive more
     compensation in twenty-six (26) pays than he would have received
     in twenty (20) pays. Each person employed during any period
     beyond the regular nine month college year shall be paid at the
     same rate of compensation that he received or would have been
     entitled to receive during the regular college year. (Par.
     amended Mar. 28, 1974, P.L.230, No.51))
        Professor Qualifications--an earned Doctor's Degree; at least
     seven years of teaching experience; minimum bi-weekly salary
     range which shall consist of seven (7) salary steps and provide
     for six (6) increments as follows: four hundred sixty-three
     dollars ($463), four hundred eighty-six dollars ($486), five
     hundred ten dollars ($510), five hundred thirty-six dollars
     ($536), five hundred sixty-two dollars ($562), five hundred
     ninety dollars ($590), six hundred twenty dollars ($620).
        Associate Professor Qualifications--minimum of an earned
     Doctor's Degree or a Master's Degree plus forty semester hours
     of graduate credit or a total of seventy semester hours of
     graduate credit including a Master's Degree or all course work
     completed toward a doctorate as certified by the university
     where the work is being taken; at least five years of teaching
     experience; minimum bi-weekly salary range which shall consist
     of seven (7) salary steps and provide for six (6) increments as
     follows: three hundred eighty dollars and fifty cents ($380.50),
     four hundred dollars ($400), four hundred twenty dollars ($420),
     four hundred forty-one dollars ($441), four hundred sixty-three
     dollars ($463), four hundred eighty-six dollars ($486), five
     hundred ten dollars ($510).
        Assistant Professor Qualifications--minimum of Master's
     Degree plus ten semester hours of graduate credit; at least four
     years of teaching experience; minimum bi-weekly salary range
     which shall consist of seven (7) salary steps and provide for
     six (6) increments as follows: three hundred twenty-nine dollars
     ($329), three hundred forty-five dollars and fifty cents
     ($345.50), three hundred sixty-two dollars and fifty cents
     ($362.50), three hundred eighty dollars and fifty cents
     ($380.50), four hundred dollars ($400), four hundred twenty
     dollars ($420), four hundred  forty-one dollars ($441).
        Instructor Qualifications--minimum of Bachelor's Degree plus
     fifteen semester hours of graduate credit; with at least three
     years teaching experience; minimum bi-weekly salary range which
     shall consist of seven (7) salary steps and provide for six (6)
     increments as follows: two hundred eighty-four dollars ($284),
     two hundred ninety-eight dollars ($298), three hundred thirteen
     dollars ($313), three hundred twenty-nine dollars ($329), three
     hundred forty-five dollars and fifty cents ($345.50), three
     hundred sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($362.50), three
     hundred eighty dollars and fifty cents ($380.50).
        Graduate degrees and preparation to meet the qualifications
     of this act shall be earned in fields related to the service
     rendered to the college.
        Upon the recommendation of the president of a State College,
     the Superintendent of Public Instruction may accept other
     education and experience qualifications than those mandated in
     this act for temporary appointments.
        Laboratory School Teachers.--Members of the college faculties
     who are assigned to College Laboratory Schools shall receive
     total annual salaries for which they would qualify in accordance
     with the above classifications, regardless of whether salary is
     paid entirely by the State or in part by the public schools.
        Co-operating Teachers.--Full-time employes of public school
     systems not classified as College Laboratory School Teachers but
     assisting with the supervision of student teachers
     qualifications--minimum of a Baccalaureate Degree and at least
     three years experience as a public school teacher: minimum
     annual compensation seventy-five dollars ($75) for each student
     teacher under his or her supervision, which student teacher
     shall be enrolled to secure the total number of semester hours
     of student teaching credit required for graduation; minimum
     annual increment, five dollars ($5); minimum number of
     increments five (5).
        Deans, heads of department and other administrative officials
     shall receive not less than five dollars ($5) bi-weekly and not
     more than fifty dollars ($50) bi-weekly, as additional
     compensation, according to the policies developed by the board
     of presidents and approved by the State Superintendent of Public
     Instruction.
        The compensation of all instructional employes and
     administrators of the State Colleges not covered by the
     provisions of this act shall be determined by the Executive
     Board of the Commonwealth under the regulations prescribed by
     the Administrative Code.
        The minimum salary ranges prescribed in this act may be
     adjusted upward by the Executive Board of the Commonwealth
     through the adoption of a higher minimum salary step for each of
     these salary ranges, or through the adoption of additional
     salary steps beyond the maximum salary step of each of these
     salary ranges, or both.
        (2 amended July 30, 1963, P.L.329, No.182)
        Section 3.  Leaves of Absence.--Upon recommendation of the
     President and approval by the Council of Trustees and the
     Chancellor of the State System of Higher Education, a leave of
     absence for a period not to exceed eighteen college calendar
     weeks with full pay or a leave of absence for a period not to
     exceed thirty-six college calendar weeks with half pay, for
     restoration of health, study, travel or other appropriate
     purposes, may be granted to any member of the faculty of any
     university which is part of the State System of Higher Education
     who has completed seven or more years of satisfactory service as
     a member of the faculty of one or more universities in the State
     System of Higher Education: Provided, That at least five
     consecutive years of such service shall have been rendered to
     the university from which the leave is sought. At the option of
     the employe, if the university operates on a system of units
     other than semesters, the employe may be granted a period
     corresponding to one or more units, within the previous
     restriction of total weeks. Leaves may be granted for any part
     of the calendar year. After completion of the requisite seven
     years, one leave of absence shall be allowed for each additional
     seven years of service upon recommendation of the Council of
     Trustees and approval by the Chancellor of the State System of
     Higher Education. Leaves shall be accumulated so that no one
     shall lose entitlement because of failure to use leave, but no
     one shall be entitled to use more than thirty-six weeks of the
     accumulated leave in succession. The President of any such
     university may be granted a leave of absence on the same basis
     as faculty members, as defined in this act. (Par. amended Oct.
     12, 1984, P.L.914, No.180)
        No leave of absence shall be granted unless such person shall
     agree, in writing, to return to his or her employment with the
     State Teachers College for a period of not less than one year
     immediately following the expiration of such leave of absence.
        No such leave of absence shall be considered a termination or
     breach of the contract of employment and the person on leave of
     absence shall be returned to the same position he or she
     occupied prior thereto.
        Every employe, while on such leave of absence, shall be
     considered to be in regular full-time daily attendance in the
     position from which the leave was taken during the period of
     said leave, for the purpose of determining the employe's length
     of service and the right to receive increments as provided by
     law.
        Every person on leave of absence shall retain the right to
     make contributions as a member of either the State Employes'
     Retirement Fund or the Public School Employes' Retirement Fund
     and continue his or her membership therein in which ever system
     he currently holds membership.
        Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any
     person on leave of absence from receiving a grant for further
     study from any institution of learning other than the State
     Teachers College by which employed.
        The Trustees of each State Teachers College shall have the
     right to make such regulations as they may deem necessary to
     make sure that employes on leave shall utilize such leave
     properly for the purpose for which it was granted, requiring
     reports from the employe or employes on leave in such manner as
     they may deem necessary.
        Section 3.1.  Payment of Salaries in Cases of Sickness or
     Death.--(a)  In any college year, whenever a member of a faculty
     of any State College is prevented by illness or accidental
     injury from following his or her occupation, during the regular
     college year, or at any other time when performing his duties as
     a faculty member, there shall be paid to said employe the full
     salary to which the employe may be entitled as if said employe
     were actually engaged in the performance of duty for a period of
     fifteen days. Sundays, holidays and vacation periods shall not
     be counted as days lost. Such leave shall be cumulative from
     year to year but shall not exceed ninety days leave with full
     pay in any one year. No faculty member's salary shall be paid,
     however, if the accidental injury is incurred while the employe
     is engaged in remunerative work unrelated to school duties.
     Until such time as an employe has accumulated ninety days leave,
     the provisions of this act shall not preclude the granting of
     additional sick leave by administrative action.
        (b)  Whenever a faculty member shall be absent from duty
     because of a death in the immediate family of said employe,
     there shall be no deduction in salary of said employe for an
     absence not in excess of three days. Members of the immediate
     family shall be defined as father, mother, brother, sister, son,
     daughter, husband, wife, or parent-in-law. Also included shall
     be any near relative who resides in the same household or any
     person with whom the employe has made his home.
        (c)  All compensation required to be paid under the
     provisions of this act shall be paid to the employe in the same
     manner and at the same time said employe would have received his
     salary if actually engaged in the performance of his duties.
        (3.1 amended Feb. 2, 1966, 1965 P.L.1856, No.583)
        Section 4.  Annual Employment.--Nothing contained herein
     shall be construed as prohibiting the payment of compensation
     beyond the salaries prescribed in this act, nor shall any part
     of this act be construed as prohibiting the employment of
     members of the administrative staffs of the State Teachers
     Colleges on a twelve (12) month basis.
        Section 5.  Promotions.--Any faculty member who has the
     qualifications necessary for the next higher classification as
     hereinbefore set forth, shall, commencing with the next
     succeeding regular college year, within the percentage
     limitation prescribed by this act, receive the compensation
     prescribed for such advanced classification which shall be at
     least one (1) additional increment in the higher salary range in
     excess of the increment earned by him during the previous year
     when recommended by the president of the college and approved by
     the board of trustees.
        (5 amended July 30, 1963, P.L.329, No.182)
        Section 6.  Administration of Salary Schedule.--The
     provisions of this act shall not be construed as authorizing any
     decrease in the salary paid or any reduction in the attained
     rank of any member of the faculty of any State College at the
     effective date of this act.
        For the college year 1963-1964, each person employed as a
     member of the faculty of a State College, who has satisfactorily
     completed a probationary period of three years, shall receive a
     salary in the lowest step in the salary range prescribed for his
     classification in this act, which will give him an increase over
     his 1962-1963 salary of not less than the first increment in the
     range for the college year 1963-1964. Each person employed as a
     member of the faculty of a State College, who has not completed
     the three year probationary period, shall receive a salary
     increase which will bring his salary to the minimum step of the
     salary range prescribed for his classification or to the next
     step in the salary range above his 1962-1963 salary.
        For the college year 1964-1965 and for each college year
     thereafter, each person who has satisfactorily completed the
     probationary period of three years shall receive one (1)
     increment to the next step in the minimum salary range
     prescribed for his classification, provided his salary during
     the previous college year was below the fifth step of the range.
     If such person's salary during the previous college year was at
     either the fifth step or the sixth step of the minimum salary
     range prescribed for his classification, he may receive one (1)
     increment to the next step in the range according to criteria
     established by the Board of Presidents and Superintendent of
     Public Instruction in cooperation with the Association of
     Pennsylvania State College Faculties.
        For the college year 1964-1965 and for each college year
     thereafter, each person who has not completed the three year
     probationary period may receive one (1) increment to the next
     step in the minimum salary range prescribed for his
     classification if such increment is recommended by the president
     of the college and approved by the Board of Trustees and the
     Superintendent of Public Instruction.
        No salary increases in excess of those either mandated or
     authorized by this act may be granted without the approval of
     the Governor's office. If the Executive Board approves any
     salary steps above the maximum salary steps prescribed in this
     act, the board shall determine the conditions upon which
     increments to such salary steps shall or may be granted.
        Classifications of any employe enumerated in the foregoing
     salary schedule and the qualifications of such employe must be
     approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to entitle
     any employe to the benefits of this act. Not more than thirty
     per centum of the total number of the faculty of any State
     College shall be approved for classification as professor,
     except where a member of the faculty has met the requirements of
     a professorship and has been an associate professor for at least
     three years when recommended by the president of the college and
     approved by the board of trustees. Of the thirty per centum,
     three per centum of the faculty may be granted full
     professorships on the basis of other qualifications than the
     doctorate when recommended by the president of the college and
     approved by the board of trustees.
        Any person appointed as a faculty member of a State College
     after the approval of this amending act shall receive a salary
     at that step in the salary range of his approved classification
     which is recommended by the president of the college and
     approved by the board of trustees and the Superintendent of
     Public Instruction.
        The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be vested with
     the sole and final authority in interpreting the provisions of
     this act pertaining to the classification of any person covered
     thereby, according to the policies developed by the board of
     presidents of State Colleges.
        (6 amended July 30, 1963, P.L.329, No.182)
        Section 7.  Repeal.--All acts and parts of acts are hereby
     repealed in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions
     of this act.