I do not understand why my campus is interviewing and hiring lots of part-time instructors? I thought there was a hiring freeze in place? Seems like they are either preparing for a mass exodus of full-time instructors or preparing for a mass firing of full-time instructors! Every department seems to be interviewing and hiring only part-instructors (we have no need for additional instructors, we have fewer students this year than last year). If you are a full-time instructor, get ready for some change!
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It's all about money! Adjunct professors and part-time are paid at a lower rate and they do not receive any benefits. Duh
UVIe66u-ybn contact the IRS and ask them who that EIN number belongs to -- they will tell you.
The Chapter 7 isn't as cut and dry as it appears- there's even a bigger mystery that no one has really reported on. I am adjunct faculty at a closing school so I'm not trying to defend EDMC or DCEH.
My closing school was listed on that Chapter 7 list as well. However, in the filings they list a completely different EIN than either DCEH or EDMC had listed on my W2s. I went back over 5 years of W2s (including 2017's both DCEH and EDMC EINs).
So it's kinda bizarre. Exactly which school (entity) is listed and bankrupt if it's not my school?
And staff who have been there three years will get a month's severance, but if you've been faculty there, say, 15+ years, you will get nothing. They will tell you that since you are being notified so long in advance of your release that YOU don't get a severance.
Get a job at a CC for sure -- stay away from career schools -- ai online is awful to teach for-- the new courses are a mess and take 3 times longer to grade - it used to be not so bad - -- micromanaging is at an all time high and forget about academic freedom -- middle states are you reading this? there is no such thing as academic freedom --- if admin tell you otherwise - they are lying.
Anyone considering teaching part time online, make sure you know what you are responsible for when you accept a class.
The pay is $1,500 a class which is less than what I can make per credit hour at a community college. I know, you can work from home, but when classes have new students or 20-24 students it takes 15 hours or more for a class each week and a lot of time on calls to students.
The classes are 5 1/2 weeks long compared to 16 weeks at a CC, but I still spend 2 times the amount of time in a class online than at the college. I do have to shower, get dressed and commute to the CC, but still only spend 9-10 hours weekly including commute and just 2 days a week on campus. If they had more classes for me I would gladly take them.
At AiO you are required to check classes 5 days a week and grade assignments within 48 hours. Plan on giving up part of a Saturday or a Sunday every weekend, or do what I do and check classes daily, being in the class every day makes it easier to catch projects that were turned in late.
The AiO dean is requiring us to call every student who is late with assignments (90% of them) or has 72% or lower grade and they gave us each access to an app we can use to make VoIP calls instead of using a personal number, that is a very nice perk. Just found out they use Grasshopper so they can track and monitor our calls to students. Micromanaging is all the assoc. dean has the talent or skills to do, heard him in a meeting, he’s a joke and yes man.
We have always had to call students, we did have to call every one of them week 1 for a while, but they changed that rule. I have had to use my personal number for calling students and always worried about it. A lot of students turn in assignments 1-2 days late and if you grade the way you were graded in college, few would have over a C-.
We are required to make videos to post for every students’ assignment once a week and for every assignment to show them how to do it.
There are 12 required hours of faculty development annually, this is not easy when you work another job, and they can be expensive. AiO offers a few faculty development classes but they are very childish, amateurish and unprofessional. It does not seem that the presenters even understand the topics at times and they present like you might present to a middle school student, not a professional with a masters degree.
The dean keeps adding more work and requirements but no additional pay or incentives.
It’s not for everyone.
1tfz - thanks - I would have responded same as you -- many faculty are in denial - - it's going to be painful for them when reality hits.
The plan reported here months ago was that DCEH would be converting all AI campuses into “learning centers” by year’s end so all the old ratio rules of FT v PT become irrelevant. With the online accreditation loss this path seems almost certain. It’s also how every RIF proceeded for at least the last three years- reduce FT to bare bones then bring back some as PT. I tried to warn some old colleagues by email when the Quarter began but the only one who responded said “ same AI stuff that’s gone on for years”. Like the slow boiling frog when these faculty are finally cooked their complacency wont have my sympathy. Only the students are the real victims. The government should just shut this scam down ASAP
If there is a layoff on 9/7 at AIP they may give FTF a 60 day notice and if we get our accreditation restored They will hire adjuncts for FTF positions at a lower salary and if they don't they will teach out with adjuncts.
Yer dumb
Each department is required to have a certain number of FT faculty by Middle States and SACS - so that would be another violation to have only adjuncts. All faculty regardless must have a masters degree period -- no one is allowed to teach with a just a bachelors period...except those who have been allowed to violate accreditation - which I know for a fact is happening.
And it's a masters that includes 18 credit hours in the area they are teaching or significant industry experience
So DCEH must be planning on losing accreditation - in which case they can hire anyone to teach - but the State Board of Education will probably step in then.
Currently -- adjuncts can only teach 10 courses per year not 20 unless they have special approval to do so and currently there are very few who have that code. It's much cheaper to have only adjuncts teaching -- they don't have to supply computers or software, no insurance, no benefits - all so you can be abused. New adjuncts are crazy or incredible desperate to for a job.
The same thing is taking place on my campus. All FT instructors will be gone and replaced with PT instructors.
My school school is closing. No one is being hired, FT or PT. ;(
- "My school is on the "opened" list"
I hate to tell you that all schools filed for CHAPTER 7 Liquidation by EDMC / DCEH
"Open schools = no teach out" when this all goes down
Its all posted online
for example look here for your "OPEN" school
https://www.inforuptcy.com/filings/debke_173745-1-18-bk-11533-art-institute-las-vegas-inc
We had 4 PT instructors on campus this week for interviews (all for the same department), my school hasn't hired a PT instructor in over 2 years, we have not seen any increase in our student enrollment and our current open houses have only had a few students attend. The HR person won't look us in the eyes when she passes. Something is happening.
I can confirm that when I resigned (this is my last quarter teaching FT), I was told by my director that I would be replaced by two different PT instructors currently teaching at our school (one of those currently teaching PT only has a BA). When I inquired about being replaced by someone who doesn't hold a graduate degree, I was told that PTs are not required to have a graduate degree. When I asked about why my position would not be replaced by a FT faculty member (my department has over 120 students and there are only two FT instructors), I was told that with the tutition cuts expected all departments would be cutting their FT positions and will only hire PT faculty members. Sad, but true. If you are a FT faculty member, please protect yourself with employment options!
$1,500 a class x 20 classes a year = $30,000 adjuncts vs. $50k-$60k a year + medical, dental and vision for full time.
Yes, the campuses are "accredited"! FT faculty is a "requirement": just like not closing schools and making them go into teach-out, like keeping the financial decisions on a local level, like notifying students when accreditation has been lost, like advertising your school as a non-profit, when the DOJ has told them that they are for-profit. I'm sure DCEH has a great explanation as to why they do not need to follow the rules! FT faculty will be let go very soon (accreditation agencies be damned). Bringing in the part-timers!
Are these campuses accredited? Having FT faculty is usually a requirement of accreditation.
My school is on the "opened" list, I was told last week that they will be letting go of the full time instructors and replacing them with part time. Good news, if you currently make $50K a year teaching full time, they will offer you $40 an hour. Sad how many instructors can't enter the working world in the field that they teach. If you can't get a job in the industry that you have "mastered", why should get a full time job teaching that industry?
Part time instructors cost less plus no benefits. Makes sense for low enrollment. Especially if all these campuses close.