Thread: Pay increase for UOP/Axia faculty

Originally Posted by BlackBird

Bruce,

That may be the case because you might be a very detailed and organized person.

HAHAHAHA!!!!!

No, nothing could be further from the truth.....I just learned to streamline, and it's been my experience that students will ask the same general questions for the same courses, so there isn't much I haven't seen/don't have an answer for. Now, if I started teaching different courses I wasn't familiar with, the learning process would start over.

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Originally Posted by Bruce

HAHAHAHA!!!!!

No, nothing could be further from the truth.....I just learned to streamline, and it's been my experience that students will ask the same general questions for the same courses, so there isn't much I haven't seen/don't have an answer for. Now, if I started teaching different courses I wasn't familiar with, the learning process would start over.

This is me too. I teach only one course for UoP - a graduate-level finance class, and I usually teach them back-to-back-to-back. I have taught it 20+ times, I've got all my rubrics, questions, supplemental questions, spreadsheets, instructions, websites, YouTube examples all set up. I've re-written most of the exercises (so that they aren’t as likely to be plagiarized) and I revise them frequently and modify them so that they can't be googled. I get more requests to teach it than I can accept. And I'm not sure that I'd teach undergrad or Axia, as the pay is more for grad-level.

I enjoy teaching at the junior college more, but the structure is different. There are more students per class (32 versus 20) and the sessions are longer (11 weeks with a week in between sessions versus 6 with no break) but the pay is higher ($4000 versus $1393) and there are less hoops to jump through. I have more autonomy, as I can choose the text etc. The pay is more in raw dollars but the sessions are longer and there are more students, so it isn't really that much more lucrative just a different pace. However, given the current economic situation, I’m not guaranteed classes, so I usually only teach three times a year versus my preferred four-six times a year.

I’m still looking for another school to add to the mix but haven’t found one yet. UoP is great grad-level teaching experience - much different than lower-division undergrads.

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Originally Posted by BlackBird

U. of the Rockies.

Thanks. I've applied twice. They want terminal degree and I'm ABD. Thanks for the info though. I'll move that way in a few months. :)

I've noticed them (UoP ) advertising for Spanish instructors in my area. I'm retiring in June, so $1000 for 5 weeks is fine with me! Does anyone know how many hour/days per week a foreign language class would meet? (if I could tolerate or "pass" the initial process)?
Thanks

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