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my impression is that adjunct faculty basically make zero dollars.

this is true. when I taught at the Law School, I made about 10% of what a full professor made. and they only taught one more class a semester than I did!!!

For what time period? Per semester?

Yes, 16 week semesters, 2.5 hours of class time per week, plus meeting with students outside of class, usually only one hour a week, plus grading.

As Jesse said, it's really the first time that you teach a particular course that is very time consuming. If this is something that you might do every semester (assuming that you like it and they like you) then it might be worth doing even if the pay is low. But if it's a one-time deal you should remember that the prep time is going to be outrageous the first time around.

Right. The rise in adjuncts is a cost-saving move for universities, most of the time. (Although some professional degree programs bring in outsiders specifically to inject real-world experience into the classroom, which is what aurelia's situation sounds like.) Usually it's a flat fee per class per semester, but it varies a lot.

Has this university really never had an adjunct before, or are they hoping your guess will be a lowball? My old univ., in a professional program, paid about $2500 per class. Which is not a lot, if you consider the time spent on class time, office hours/questions, and any grading you have to do; but those classes also met only once a week, at night, so they could easily be fit into a real-world work schedule.

I know that the undergrad university pays $1500 per credit, so maybe you could use that as a guideline

The rise in adjuncts is a cost-saving move for universities, most of the time.

It's a huge cost savings. At a research university full-time faculty only teach two or three courses a year. For the same price, you can get adjuncts to teach 15 courses, and forget about providing health and retirement benefits. Plus, administrators like the fact that part-time faculty lack power in the system.

On the other hand, if you are teaching something that you care about and you find the interactions with students to be satisfying, then part-time teaching is kind of like a hobby that you get paid for.

Rick is right. I love teaching, I would do it again in a heartbeat. The money is a nice bonus, though

Also, having taught in a creative field is a nice thing on a resume.

I enjoyed the classes I taught as a academic law librarian as well, but it was always part of the job description, so I didn't get paid extra for doing it.

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ita, will you come pretend I am a krav student and yell at me in order to make me pack. I'm scared of how much I still have left to do, but I still don't seem to be doing it.

Gorgeous wildflower pictures. The flowers in Texas were incredible, but where I was, it was less a 100 year spring thing than just the usual explosion.

I've missed ALL the desert psychoflower springs, despite having grown up there. They just didn't much happen those 17 years.