Greetings all,
I am a recent Masters degree recipient and am very interested in
teaching my discipline. My current ideal situation would be to teach
at a local community college level on a part time basis. I would like
to stay at my current day job, but believe it would be flexible enough
to permit to teach a day class and a night class or so.
I actually have an interview this coming week with a non-profit, but
private college. While this is not a community college, but a 4 year
degree granting institution, the main drive of the college is to help
disenfranchised and those from the lower socioeconomic bracket.
Money is not my motivation in this enterprise, but I would like some
sort of gauge for the going rate. Research is difficult, many
community colleges don't seem to post pay with their job postings.
Those that do, the pay is often broken up into semesters or credit
hours, which don't necessarily translate all that well (when the
length of semesters varies, etc..) I have taken some of these numbers
and broken them down into a "dollars per hour teaching in the
classroom" metric so I can attempt to compare and contrast but it is
tedious work and I got some widely varied numbers - from $20 to $60
per hour teaching. My baseline is simply to recover the costs of
driving to and from the teaching, anything above this is gravy. I
figure my first experiences are simply for learning the ropes and I am
lucky I am being paid (though I am providing a needed service)
I am in the Metro Detroit area and realize location will greatly vary
the rates. If anyone has any advice I'd certainly appreciate it.
Thanks!
Matt
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