SHREVEPORT, La. — Southern University’s Board of Supervisors has approved raises for all of its campuses except the flagship campus in Baton Rouge.
Baton Rouge employees could get some increase once the campus budget is clearer, The Advocate reported. Baton Rouge Chancellor James Llorens says he will decide after final enrollment numbers are in.
The raises approved Friday are generally 2 percent at Southern University New Orleans, 3 percent at the law school in Baton Rouge, and 4 percent at the Southern Agricultural Center, also in Baton Rouge.
At the Shreveport campus, instructors asked to teach extra “overload” sections will get $300 for adjunct professors and $500 for full-time faculty, The Times reported.
Faculty overload pay policies at the campus “have historically been low, comparing our overload policy with other institutions in this area,” SUSLA Chancellor Ray Belton said. “The new budget allows for a $500 pay increase in the overload pay for full-time faculty and a $300 increase in overload pay for part-time adjunct professors.”
The board also approved day-care centers for students in Shreveport and New Orleans.
Money for the raises and other projects is from one-time funding, partly from the state Legislature.
