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.
Gah! One of the single-family homes in my neighborhood that I covet is on the market. $850,000! good lord.
The circus top room scares me a bit.
I'm sorta morbidly curious what one of the ginormous old houses on my way to work sold for. It went within 2 weeks.
