University of Phoenix online full-time instructors?

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  1. Jazzy

    Jazzy New Member

  2. scaredrain

    scaredrain Member

    I know that their ground campuses has full time faculty, a friend of mine is a full time faculty member for one of their campuses here in NC.
     
  3. Jazzy

    Jazzy New Member

    How much do they make?
     
  4. RFValve

    RFValve Well-Known Member

    Some schools limit the number of online courses you can teach over the year. Although you are not technically full time, you can get enough work from one school to be considered full time but you don't get benefits. The only schools that I know that hire full time online faculty with benefits are: Kaplan and Walden.
     
  5. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator


    South University also hires full time online faculty.
     
  6. truckie270

    truckie270 New Member

    APUS also has full-time faculty with benefits.
     
  7. scaredrain

    scaredrain Member

    Strayer University also has full time on ground and online faculty members also, as well as ITT Tech and Devry.
     
  8. cleondann

    cleondann Guest

    Reply - university of phoenix

    Hey...

    I m pursuing CJ from online education has affiliation from university of phoenix...

    So, what will u suggest me is that right decision for me...

    regards
    :eek::eek::eek:cleon dann
     
  9. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    If it works for you - do it.
     
  10. ITJD

    ITJD Guest

    I can advise you that an Assistant Chair position in the Psychology department at one of the two schools mentioned above as hiring full time online faculty was recently being shopped to candidates at $42,000 per year with benefits non-negotiable.

    Purpose of the position was to monitor online instructors, adjuncts and full-time professors to make sure they were doing things according to school policy.

    This does not mean that instructors are held to that pay scale or lower but the candidate who gave me that information held a Masters from a T2 RA school and had 6 years research experience at a very well-known T1 research school as an assistant and didn't get the pay to budge at all.
     
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  11. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    Which school? University of Phoenix, Kaplan, Walden, and South University were all mentioned.
     
  12. ITJD

    ITJD Guest

    I'll PM you with the school Randell. I initially put the specifics of the position in my post and edited them out because putting the school in the public post and the information about the applicant in the same post could cause issue if the wrong person reads it. She still works for the company in another capacity.
     
  13. graymatter

    graymatter Member

    One component that might factor in is that often people in such positions are also allowed to cherry-pick adjunct courses to facilitate for extra cash. At least this was the case at the school I worked and adjunct-ed with.

     
  14. ITJD

    ITJD Guest

    The chair would be allowed to adjunct no more than one course per term and was advised that this would not be something to rely on as the primary responsibility was to monitor approximately 30 adjuncts and assist with weekly meetings.

    This stated, after PMing Randell I'm now aware this is not the norm and specific to that particular school. I apologize for not being more specific publicly, not wise. But I do recognize there are schools out there that pay more and do things differently.
     
  15. RFValve

    RFValve Well-Known Member

    $42000 for a full time professor? I have seen salaries in the 60K range from places like Kaplan and Walden but 45K seems a bit too low for a PhD graduate.
     
  16. scaredrain

    scaredrain Member

    The pay sounds about right with the universities mentioned, because there are people willing to accept that salary, especially with benefits, due to the economic climate. Where I work, the faculty managers or faculty chairs pay depends on which department they work for, the number of instructors they are supervising, and the number of students in each department. Right now the highest paid chairs are the health and science ones, as well as the business and technology ones. Of course it depends on the years of experience they have and the types of degrees they have. One of our highest paid chairs is making quite a bit, but only because he has been with the organization for about 15 years now, since the beginning and started off in admissions! Whats required to become a chair or an assistant chair is also changing also, I was shocked to see an advert at one university for an academic chair and the position only required a bachelors degree and about 5 to 7 years of experience. Where I work the trend seems to be heading in the direction of having a few chairs that manage different instructors from different departments. One university where I am an adjunct, my current chair is also dean of the department, the roles having recently been combined.

    I have noticed that most of the online or remote full time employees, at some of these mostly online universities, are accepting what may seem like lower salaries in exchange for benefits and working from home, which is a plus for some. If you want to make money at some of the places mentioned, either work as a dean or a director, they are making all of the money it seems, at least where I work!
     
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