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pigeonsmasher t1_ixeukv2 wrote

Reply to comment by johnniewelker in New School makes “final offer” to striking part-time faculty in New York City by DrogDrill

I’ve been there for awhile but I believe the starting rate is still $60-70 per hour, 3 hours per week per class, for 16 weeks. So that comes out to something like $3500 per course.

I’m not sure how much full-time faculty are making—north of $60k a year, not sure by how much. Typical courseload is 6 per year AFAIK. So that comes out to $10k per course. It might be 8 per year/$7500 per course.

The workload is virtually the same, which is the cause of much uproar across departments. Even the full timers generally agree and are vocal about the disparity.

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johnniewelker t1_ixextc9 wrote

Yea that seems like a raw deal for part timers. Aren’t full timers required to do research or publish?

All in, even if each student pays $3K per class at 20 students a class. Paying faculty somewhere between $3.5K to $10K is very light. Teachers might be better off creating their schools and teach a class of 10 people online or to the students home.

This is insane.

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pigeonsmasher t1_ixey2ah wrote

Right, the research and publishing is where the rest of that money is “earned.” For however valuable that is.

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___pa___ t1_ixh9vfs wrote

I posted a detailed breakdown above. Full time professors at CUNY are not living high on the hog believe me. We don't have coaches or a big time law or medical school, so the "professors" that make over $150k a year are few and far between. This is all publicly available if you do a search and as of this moment our absolute cap on the highest paid full professor with 20+ years at CUNY is $141,858. That does not include extra pay for being the chair of a department or distinguished professor or anything. For that add about $25,000 more. So if everyone is upset about high pay in NYC, I don't think looking at professors is where we should be looking...

Edit - by the way The New School is a private school NOT a CUNY school.

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