New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

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28	28	HOUSE MEMORIAL 39
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30	30	TH LEGISLATURE
31	31	- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
32	32	FIRST SESSION
33	33	, 2025
34	34	INTRODUCED BY
35	35	Joy Garratt
36	36	A MEMORIAL
37	37	REQUESTING THE HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT A STUDY
38	38	ON HIGHER EDUCATION COMPENSATION FOR BOTH TEMPORARY AND NON-
39	39	TEMPORARY INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF IN COLLABORATION WITH THE
40	40	LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND THE LEGISLATIVE EDUCATION
41	41	STUDY COMMITTEE.
42	42	WHEREAS, temporary and non-temporary instructional staff
43	43	struggle with low pay, inadequate access to benefits and little
44	44	to no job security, and recent studies have found that sixty-
45	45	six percent of temporary and non-temporary instructional staff
46	46	have contemplated leaving the profession altogether; and
47	47	WHEREAS, a recent report by the American association of
48	48	university professors found that more than one-fourth of survey
49	49	participants earn less than twenty-six thousand five hundred
50	50	dollars ($26,500) annually; and
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78	78	WHEREAS, in the same report, survey participants indicated
79	79	that they were not offered continuing contracts despite
80	80	satisfactory job performance; and
81	81	WHEREAS, in 2022, the American federation of teachers
82	82	conducted a survey and found that food scarcity impacts both
83	83	temporary and non-temporary instructional staff; and
84	84	WHEREAS, the same survey found that twenty percent of
85	85	temporary and non-temporary instructional staff rely on
86	86	medicare or medicaid to access basic health care services; and
87	87	WHEREAS, forty years ago, seventy percent of academic
88	88	employees were tenured or on the tenure track, while today that
89	89	ratio has flipped and sixty-eight percent of faculty are
90	90	holding positions that are not even eligible for tenure and
91	91	forty-eight percent of faculty are holding positions that are
92	92	fully part time; and
93	93	WHEREAS, many temporary and non-temporary instructional
94	94	staff work far more hours than they are paid for, holding long
95	95	office hours and participating in shared governance; and
96	96	WHEREAS, a large number of faculty in New Mexico are
97	97	leaving public post-secondary educational institutions to teach
98	98	in secondary educational institutions to earn higher
99	99	compensation;
100	100	NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
101	101	REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the higher
102	102	education department, in collaboration with the legislative
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131	131	finance committee and the legislative education study
132	132	committee, be requested to conduct a comprehensive study on
133	133	issues relating to the state of higher education compensation
134	134	for temporary and non-temporary instructional staff; and
135	135	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the study review and examine
136	136	current New Mexico compensation data for temporary and non-
137	137	temporary instructional staff, including salaries and benefits,
138	138	counts, titles, credits or contract hours taught, other
139	139	required duties and course overload policies for all public
140	140	post-secondary educational institutions in the state; and
141	141	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the higher education
142	142	department, in collaboration with the legislative finance
143	143	committee and the legislative education study committee,
144	144	consult with faculty and instructional staff, directors from
145	145	diverse departments and programs, representatives of bargaining
146	146	units, human resource managers, chief academic officers and
147	147	administrators at each of the state's two- and four-year public
148	148	post-secondary educational institutions while gathering this
149	149	data to adequately address cost concerns related to fringe
150	150	benefits, compression, return-to-work faculty, faculty duties,
151	151	non-credit and workforce training instructional staff and
152	152	increased administrative responsibilities; and
153	153	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if the findings of the higher
154	154	education department, in collaboration with the legislative
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184	184	committee, lead to a recommendation that there should be
185	185	considerations of compensation structures that exceed the
186	186	amounts currently received, the department also recommend
187	187	methodologies to fund compensation increases; and
188	188	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the higher education
189	189	department present its findings and recommendations by December
190	190	1, 2025; and
191	191	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
192	192	transmitted to the governor, the director of the legislative
193	193	finance committee, the director of the legislative education
194	194	study committee and the secretary of higher education.
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