Dear Campus Community,
At CC we seek to “
ignite the passion and potential of our students, and the entire CC community, to create a world that is more equitable, humane, and just.” That vision, along with our commitment to nurture and maintain a
thriving community, led the college leadership and
Project 2024 to revisit the college’s philosophy on compensation.
Last year,
Project 2024 identified specific areas for action from what we
learned in year one, including providing a living wage for employees. College leadership responded by establishing and implementing a living wage standard for benefits-eligible employees last July.
This year, the
Project 2024 Steering Committee sought to make a living wage commitment part of CC’s compensation philosophy and an action group worked to revise this philosophy for the CC community. We are pleased to announce that it has been approved and will go into effect immediately.
It states that, in order to fulfill our mission to provide a high-quality liberal arts education to a talented and diverse community of students, we must attract and retain equally diverse and talented employees.
It commits the college to seven principles, including:
- We pay our benefits-eligible employees a living wage and work to get all others as close to a living wage as possible.
- We provide compensation (pay plus benefits) that is internally and externally equitable.
- We provide varied benefits to support our employees’ well-being and diverse needs.
- We administer compensation in a fair and flexible manner.
The revised compensation philosophy can be found on the
Human Resources compensation website. The website will be updated with actions taken to implement our philosophy and will provide metrics to measure the college’s progress.
We would like to thank the members of the action group – Justine Square, Susan Ashley, Thecla Shubert, Chad Schonewill, Ofer Ben-Amots, and Ryan Simmons – for their hard work in bringing the new philosophy to fruition.
Stay tuned later this spring when the Project 2024 Steering Committee shares their Year Three report and the results of their deep dive into the challenges facing higher education and CC.
Sincerely,
Susan Ashley
Professor of History and Project 2024 Coordinator
Ryan Simmons
Vice President for People & Workplace Culture
