Do you know of graduates from TRACS schools hired and teaching at RA schools? Same with DEAC graduates?
I have yet to see one person who is teaching at an RA school with their master's or doctorate from an NA school. Every time I think I've found one, I find that they're actually teaching with their master's from an RA school, so their NA doctorate is a non-factor. If they're teaching at a community college, more information is needed because some community college teaching positions only require a bachelor's or associate's.
For the last two years, I've been teaching as an adjunct in many graduate courses at Purdue Global, and I have a doctorate from an NA school.
Is the doctorate required? If there is a pay differential, are you receiving it? Or is it incidental?
USDOE basically looks at NA/RA the same way now, having said that, there are institutions that still favor RA over NA, I'd still guess at 80/20... 80 still favor RA over NA and about 20 that would look at them the same way. I still suggest RA all the way from undergrad to graduate school, but there are some subjects that are not affordable at the RA level (mainly doctorate), in that case, NA should suffice.
