DU Professors what does this mean?

[usregimechange]

"The stipend for part-time instruction is $450 per credit hour." This is for a adjunct faculty position. Is that 450 per student credit hour or 450 per class credit hour? One would be too little and the other quite nice.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. per CH per month?

:shrug:

[usregimechange]

2. For teaching one class that would be about what I make now.

Now if I taught two or kept my other job 450 per ch a month would be pretty good.

[khashka]

3. Per class credit hour.

No one ever got rich by being adjunct faculty.

Khash.

[usregimechange]

4. It at least has to be monthly, otherwise you could make more

working minimum wage.

[khashka]

7. Yeah. And your point is?

Khash.

[Orangepeel]

9. theoretically, it is more than minimum wage

assuming that someone teaching full time would teach 4 courses a semester, 3 semesters a year. Of course, one would make more (and get better benefits) working at the Gap, but that's academia.

[tk2kewl]

5. I used to teach a college course and got about $2000 for

the entire semester for a 3 credit course.

seems that it is for the entire course to me.

[punpirate]

6. It's per class hour per semester...

... that would be my guess. In the several instances that I taught on adjunct status, those were the terms.

[AverageJoe]

8. If it's a 3-hour course

you'll make $1,350 for the semester, before taxes and other withholdings.

I was an adjunct off and on for about 10 years. It's a hell of a life.