More than 100 Front Range Community College instructors did not receive their paychecks, as scheduled, for the first two weeks of summer school because of “human error.”
About half of those affected received the missing pay four days late, on June 18, with the other half not receiving it until the next scheduled payday, June 28, FRCC communications director Jessica Peterson said.
“As of that date, all of FRCC’s summer instructors were fully paid,” Peterson said, noting that those impacted also received stipends and grants of $500 apiece – with some receiving both – in additional compensation.
But not before many of those adjunct instructors, most of them earning just $3,000 per class for standard 3-credit courses, were late making mortgage, rent, car, student-loan and credit-card payments, said Laura Wally, a chemistry instructor on the Larimer Campus in Fort Collins.
“It was very difficult,” said Wally, who filed an unemployment claim with the state when she didn’t receive her expected paycheck. “Pay of any amount late is wholly unacceptable and makes you late on your payments to creditors. You set things up thinking that paycheck is going to happen.”