Shannon Gadbois wrote: > This comment is insensitive and negates the significance of the issue to > entire institutions, individual faculty and to students.
Well, with that comment, I do have to say something after having deleted about 40% of the previous posts. First, credentials. I have worked at 2- and 4-year colleges, and I have worked at a major university or two. I have been full-time faculty, part-time faculty and part-time administrator, and full-time administrator up to the level of VP for Academic and Student affairs. I have also done my share of adjuncting (for extra money) in all of these positions. It probably varies from place to place, but there has been (everywhere I have been) a gross inequity in the pay for adjuncts. If I were to teach a course for an overload at my previous college I would be payed 9% of my 10 month equivalent pay which figured out to be about $4,700 for teaching the overload course. An adjunct with equivalent education would be payed about $2,300. That's nearly immoral. Also, those of you who are required to teach 3 or 4 courses per semester have the advising and committee work figured in as part of the full-time load. I know, because I did it for years. Also, if you had a significant project (such as developing a brand new course) you probably ask for released or reassigned time to do that work as well (leaving an adjunct position open for someone who really wants to teach). Also (and lord knows that I hate to agree with Louis) it is a lot sexier to build a library than to give pay raises. People will give much more to help build a building or to give scholarships to the college athletes than they well to "improve faculty salaries." Yes, the more students who attend a State college the more it costs the state; however, I'll bet if you go back and look at budgets over the past 25 years, your state is paying a lower percentage of the budget to education today than it did then. Finally (and then I'm off of my soap box) don't fall for the poor downtrodden public school teacher is sooooo underpaid ploy. in the last three places that I have been, starting salaries for brand new bachelor's degree public school teachers was very cometitive with entry level Assistant Professor salaries for which a PhD was required. Let's go out there and teach. Bob Wildblood, PhD Indiana University Kokomo --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
