I am feeling so depressed! :- ( And our students... they don't deserve this. Most of the Instructors (perhaps less the frantic tea bag guy) really do care. We really don't deserve to be treated this way. This is breaking my heart. I refuse to believe that folks are this reckless and corrupt.
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ITT it has been $1600 for like 6 years--no raises. Local college routinely may $2000 or more, ITT is always the lowest pay. In fact when the added 20 minuets to classes around 4 years ago---the pay stayed the same!!!
$1600 per quarter? Adjuncts at my campus get paid $1200 per quarter.
With the demise of one of the Corinthian colleges last year, we managed to add three adjunct faculty primarily as the result of some prior contacts I had made with one of them. Not sure this is true with all community colleges, but we are always looking at hiring adjuncts. Yes like for-profit colleges, the non-profit tax supported colleges like to use adjuncts because (1) they don't have to provide benefits, and (2) tenure track not applicable. But it is true, at least for the community colleges that I'm familiar with in my state, full-time faculty roles are usually filled from the adjunct ranks.
Adjunct faculty are in my opinion poorly treated by most colleges. It is that academic world caste system of the have's and have-not's. I'm fortunate that I happened to be in the right place at the right time to have landed a full-time position. Not that I was not qualified for the position, but there are lots of adjunct faculty out there who are qualified but that door to a full-time position doesn't seem to come up.
Good for you happy adjunct. Tried to be a believer, but just was not working out for me. Started doing a little investigating -- for example, checked out disclosures on employee portal showing average starting salaries for ITT-Tech grads, and found that typically the starting salary for bachelor graduates was about the same as for the associate's program -- in the same field, at the same campus. After that I could not teach a bachelor class again. Did not want to look the students in the eye. And seriously cautioned my associate grads about bachelor programs -- strongly encouraged they researched all their options -- but since they couldn't transfer credits, it was kind of heartbreaking. And so it goes .................
The Adjunct faculty position at $1600/11 weeks is not a bad gig. I taught 5 classes each quarter plus tutoring 10 hours every week for 6 years and as 3-4 classes were the same so I only had to prep once, and I made the same as my starting salary when I transitioned to DOF. I taught 1st quarter classes and Econ classes that were in the 6th quarter and it was really satisfying to see the students almost to graduation.
And no, I never stole anything.
Shroom tea would be bad idea -- working at my campus the last few months was like being on a bad trip already. Faculty and staff all pretending everything was fine, even with first ACICS show cause and DOE sanctions in place. Director talking about building enrollment up in the coming months. Afraid I was going to get in trouble for the complaint to attorney general and ACICS. But not willing to quit in the middle of the quarter, so just sticking it out and sneaking M and M's from financial aid lady's desk after hours. You may not believe it now, but a few weeks away from ITT-Tech and you will start feeling sane again.
Should've drank some shroom tea.
No, tea bag lady has not gotten paid so far. But I do care. Which is why I went out on limb and did report to attorney general and ACICS a few months ago about fraud on my campus. And I still got hired back, go figure! Constantly felt underpaid too, of course -- seriously, do the math on $1600 per quarter per class, with no benefits at all (except a few tea bags). Stress level was really high on my campus. Had to drink a lot of chamomile tea to survive -- no medical benefits, no fancy drugs you know.