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anyone taught as adjunct faculty?
My residency is over in 6 weeks (wow!) and I'm job searching. This morning the Sunday paper employment section was down to ONE piece of actual paper. I'm wondering if a lot of businesses decided on a hiring freeze as of the start of the new fiscal year 7/1...I know most hospitals have, which is very bad for me!
Anyway, there are a few adjunct faculty positions at community colleges I'm considering. Has anyone ever taught courses like this? What did you like/not like about it? Anything else I should know? TIA.
Re: anyone taught as adjunct faculty?
No idea on the adjunct faculty (although I could ask FIL about this, as he's been a professor at the seminary for nearly 30 years and therefore has plenty of friends who have done adjunct work), but wanted to say CONGRATS on nearing the end of your residency!!! Time to celebrate!!!
I did ask Joel about Hershey (he was on-call a few times in May for them) and he said that they did have an opening for children's hospital chaplain, but last he had heard, they had just finished a round of hiring and filling any open positions they had. Bummer on other hospitals being on a freeze, but not surprising in this economy.
GL with whatever you end up settling on!
... every single day of forever.
Congrats on almost being done with your residency! That is so exciting!
I know some PhDs that have done adjunct work, depending on the field and the level of degree, they maybe made between $1k-3k per course depending on the school. It was less at community colleges. Good luck!
I taught business classes a local tech school for about 2 years. It was actually a pretty good deal. The nice thing with that school was that they gave you everything- lessons plans, exams, homework, everything. And the classes were small so I really got to know the students and I had them for different classes over the two years until they graduated. I really liked and I'm hoping I hear from them for the September start if they have a new group. The pay wasn't bad for a part time kind of thing. I taught anywhere between 1-3 classes per quarter and made like 5K last year.
Let me know if I can answer anything else for you!
I can't answer for having done, but from what I've heard from many of my professors who were adjunct.
Some like the flexibilty of not being tied to one place, while others find it annoying that they have to wait so long to find out if they will be used each semester and then they are given the clases or time slots the regualr professors don't want. Of course the more classes you take on and are willing to do the more you often get offered. My one history professor started out with one classes his first semester and continured to work a regualr full time job at Lowes. But he also has aniche where his main focus was the civil war, he got the first dibs on that class becuase that had been his focus and also di side history trips to Gettysburg and other places, that other professors did not. At HACC, you still have to plan you own curriculum based on the apporved book they want for the class. It's funny, I took a comp class with one professor, ended up dropping it. Retook it with another and they seemed like completely different classes just because each prof. wanted to stress different areas off the same thing.
Personally, I feel it is a good way to get experience and your foot in the door, plus not cut yourlsef off from other possible experiences. My geography prof would teach in one location, come to our class, and then leave to go to West chester to teach there. She liked it because of the variety. Plus what better way to start making contacts and networking for other things.
Thanks everyone. Your insights are really helpful!
Ashley - I hadn't heard that the children's position at Hershey was open. Thanks for asking Joel. I think a children's hospital position might be one thing I couldn't take on right now. It's really hard for me to work with parents and young children in such difficult situations at this point in my life. I'm hoping to stick with babies or grown ups!