18 Hours to teach community college

Hello.

I'm looking into various DL Ph.D. business program options and wonder if my desire to teach at a community college should be a factor. Our state, which I don't think is unique, requires a master degree plus at least 18 hours in the field of instruction. Hence, it seems that some programs might not provide the concentration of hours needed to meed community college criteria.

Anyone faced this issue?

 

It Depends

It depends on your state. In Arizona, we used to have a community college board. Now, each college determines who is qualified to teach. Often there are alternative ways in the rule book to qualify yourself to teach a subject. Make sure you find the rulebook for your area and study it. Then, point out how you qualify (copy the page and circle the particular rule). That is what I had to do to qualify to teach a few subjects.

 

I have been wondering about this as well. When they say 18 hours in the field of instruction what do they mean exactly?

If I wanted to teach IT classes do I need just 18 general hours in IT or do I need 18 hours specific to each subject such as programming or networking?

 

Of the only two 100% DL PhD's- Touro does not give you 18 credits in a concentration, NCU does.

The community colleges in Florida require 18 grad credits in a subject to teach also.

 

Usually, this means 18 hours in the subject generally. The standard is set by state education departments and/or accrediting bodies. Nevertheless, if you are asking for a job teaching programming and your 18 hours are in networking only, don't expect to be hired.

Hope this helps,



marilynd

 

Reply from thread originator

Thanks for all the advice. I'll search for relevant threads. Based on another thread I created in comparing Walden, Capella, UofP and NCU, the NCU option is looking better. It's a risk based on it relative new status, but the BA (Finance) focus is on target.

Someone mentioned to have management courses to teach community college. If I do HCU, my 18 hours would likely be finance, so I guess I'd be limited to finance at a community college? My MS is real estate, which is too obscure for my local Tampa community colleges, although I'd be in hog heaven in Texas. Thus, I need to build my 18 hour qualification into the Ph.D.

Thanks again.

 

Someone mentioned to have management courses to teach community college. If I do HCU, my 18 hours would likely be finance, so I guess I'd be limited to finance at a community college? My MS is real estate, which is too obscure for my local Tampa community colleges, although I'd be in hog heaven in Texas. Thus, I need to build my 18 hour qualification into the Ph.D.

I got a question. Do CCs in Florida teach finance at the CC level?? I know out here (CA) finance is taught an upper division subject. There are no finance courses at any CCs near me.

I am earning an MBA with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Finance and getting 18 hours in both subjects. I'm looking to teach at the CC level, but I assumed that my options were limited when it came to teaching Finance at CCs because there are no classes being offered.

As far as RE, you would be doing well out here too.

 

finance at community college

Thanks for the reply.

I need to evaluate your question. I did a finance course at HCC here in Tampa, but it was a math professor. It's not clear that a community college would have much finance, so perhaps a larger college. My main thing is that with only an MS, I can't teach as an adjunct at the graduate level. My main reason to get a Ph.D. is for gradute teaching, but if felt that NCU's 18 hour specialization would allow qualify me. Our community colleges her in Tampa don't have real estate at all, so I have not gotten much academic milage from my MS in Tampa. Perhaps I should move to Dallas