I, for one, am! And we are just out in the cold, after being instructors, but spending most of our time in Outreach?!?! Calling and emailing students who don't give a crap about their educations. That's just it? You are fine being thrown to the wind without a howdy do? I think it sucks to be treated like crap after all we've done. Suck it CCI. Suck it.
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Why not unionize? Take the power from the corporation. With no faculty, there is no college.
Anonymous21937, I hear you, my rention was higher than average as well but I felt the students who stuck with me grew from a personal and education standpoint. i think my rention percentage was around 31%-33%. During my last eval I recived a 1.2 out of 3.0 but was told in a seperate email I was a poor performer purely because I missed a few weeks on outreach, to which I was then told I would be assigned courses based on outreach performance first, then evaluation 2nd, which I think totally defeats the purpose of an evulaton (which i know were subjective anyway). And yes if you are able to sign up with a different school you will either have little to no outreach. I teach for 2 other schools one for-profit and one community college, and Everest was the only school that required outreach. I was okay with it when it was simply send a email within the course tool weekly.. but talisma + phone calls really broke the back and took time from teaching. I more than likely would have reduced my course load to 1-2 classes come next year anyway due to the oppressive nature of my PM and outreach requirements. Having had a taste of other education institutions its night and day. so don't feel to bad, its all a learning experience and there are nuggets of gold to take away from last 3-4 weeks, despites the horrible outcome of being listed as inactive without being formally notified.
What makes me even madder is if we are considered inactive, then we aren't in the system. That means we are out, I guess. I understand that so am part time temporary, but I am still a human being who deserves to be treated as such. Obviously, I don't expect professionalism from these people. But, I spent 50% of my time keeping these students in school. I was hired as an instructor, but because of the level of students the signed, I was more retention specialist. Now, I just feel like a schmuck. But, even if I go to another for profit, I know there won't be so much outreach. So, maybe it's all a blessing in disguise. My retention rate was higher than average and my students liked me. I liked the ones that came to class. But, now I guess we look elsewhere.
I never even got that information!
Trust me, I am angry but mostly at the way the PM's are treating staff and not really being appriciative of those who have devoted time to studets. 2nd the structure for being tossed on our ear (part-Adjuncts) was well in place. Either you were full-time employee adjunct, PL, PM(program manager) or simply part-time adjunct (At-will emoployee). My issue with the current situation would not be so negative if the SOS meetings notes we receive by e-mail (for those adjuncts who live in other parts of the cournty or globe) were acompanied by some context. Some of the information in those SOS summaries can be seen as very combative or threatening against Adjuncts (part-time) and the lack of compassion spills from the SOS document as you read the statement "Adjuncts with no classes will be listed as inactive" for there first time. It would have been nice to recieve a personal e-mail or at least thank you mass mailer to the adjucts who are now inactive (such as I am) to simply say thanks for your hard work. Instead its as you stated tossed on the ear.
And now we have a black eye on our professional careers. Great.