Posted on 02/07/2018 11:03:00 AM PST by nickcarraway
A vice chancellor and a part-time college professor walk into a bar. They have a drink and start talking about work. Both have tough jobs and hectic schedules. Both have Ph.Ds and both are public servants.
But when it comes to pay, the joke is on the part-time teacher.
The part-time professor earns about $30,000 annually and pays for health benefits while the vice chancellor makes a six-figure salary with full benefits.
Earning more than $70 per hour, it appears part-time college instructors are well paid. But this rate is misleading because only classroom hours are counted, not actual time spent on prep, grading and district administrative work.
The result is a two-tier system with little upward mobility for those at the bottom. Far from the comfort of an ivory tower, the world of academia has led many Bay Area part-time college instructors into secret lives of hardship.
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“Public servants” - they lost me there.
And yet, in Blackholefornia, illegal immigrants can go to college/uni for free.......
Get a REAL job!
Wait a minute.
Didn’t Paleface Lizzy Warren get paid $250,000 from Harvard to teach one class?
This is what happens when you get a degree there is absolutely no market for other than as a professor teaching the subject. There’s thousands and thousands of sociology majors out there but not so many jobs for teaching sociology.
Hard to pay back the student loans on that salary.
Every day i think of images and movies of way back when East Germany fenced in its population, and thats where California is headed.
I’ve said for a while now that aside from Hollywood no employer mistreats it’s employees worse than Academia. There is a small elite of tenured professors earning six-figure incomes while working as much or as little as they want. And then there are the adjuncts, who do most of the teaching, have no benefits or job security and must often work at three different schools just to earn enough to put food on the table. Being married to an academic (thankfully she’s full-time) I’ve seen this up close. The worst Walmart treats it’s employees better than the typical university. It’s no coincidence that the most exploitive employers are both Progressive bastions.
Adjunct faculty usually have another full-time job.
Part time professors living in the Bay Area...AKA Antifa.
Folks who only work part time jobs can’t expect to enjoy a high life style. Those part time classroom jobs are usually taken by people with regular businesses or full time regular jobs off campus, or folks who are retired or otherwise not financially dependent on the small stipends for teaching a night class or two. . You can’t expect to live in a $2,000,000.00 house (a fairly typical price there, alas) on a $700/month part time teaching gig. And not to add insult to injury, but if these people aren’t smart enough to realize this simple fact of life, or can’t add up the numbers — then maybe they shouldn’t be teaching to begin with? ( I am not lacking in sympathy! It’s just that everyone knows that a part time teaching “job” isn’t a way of supporting a home, especially in a high rent district like Californication, or family. These cry- baby articles from the labor union aside...)
Not the ones I know. And they aren’t looking for one, either. That would be beneath them.
Warping young minds does not deserve better pay.
The value of property in that area is simply too high for low-income folks to live there.
Such places are functionally identical to deserts: the cost of staying there is way too high for most, so MOVE already. Arguing with the environment doesn’t help. Taking from others who are not substantially above the cost of living harms everyone.
It’s a limited oasis in a large desert. More people want to be there than carrying capacity allows, expressed by the cost of living - and if “supply-and-demand” doesn’t dissuade those who can’t hack it, “survival of the fittest” will.
The value of 3 hamburgers a day and 100 sq ft of living space in that area is simply higher than the value of part-time teaching there.
MOVE.
There’s a whole lot of USA that’s affordable. zillow.com is a great start, just enter your housing requirements + budget + target state, and you’ll find lots of good options.
I attend a state community college for Real Estate and Digital Photography classes.
All three of my professors teach part time and work full time in the subjects they teach.
For me it begs the question - where then are all the education dollars going?
I was a staff person in a big university and it was a miserable experience.
Just checked zillow.com for fun:
You can buy 3 near-oceanfront properties in Brunswick GA for $7,500 total (package deal), close to the high-dollar St. Simon Island and Jekyll Island (yes, _that_ one) with lots of affluent seasonal business. Build 3 “minimalist” poured-concrete homes there, topped with solar & rain collection, sell 2 for a considerable profit, then move on to the same process with other dirt-cheap properties in the area.
The adjunct profs in question could even continue their “career” via online/virtual classrooms.
Opportunities abound for the mobile & industrious.
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