After grades are turned in you will most likely get an email that will tell you that the 2 week break time will be unpaid.
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The college's mission statement says it all. The mission of the college is to prepare students for careers. If a student wants to be an accountant, who prepares that student? Does the sales rep do it? No. Does the financial aid person do it? No. Does the campus president do it? No. All those people play a supportive role, supporting the professors who teach accounting to the student who wants to be an accountant.
I see several posts that suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of how colleges like Heald earn money. We sell a service. That service is provided by professors. The college earns revenue ONLY when that service is provided. Everyone else is in a support position, from the top to the bottom. I can understand how people who have never worked at a real college would be confused. Heald has been struggling for a very long time, and many employees have been too focused on survival and have lost perspective. The people who teach the students are the heart of any college and the college cannot exist or earn money without them.
You are wrong. Admissions gets students to sign up for classes. No money is generated if there are no classes. Only qualified professors can teach classes. Admissions can sign up a million students, but if Heald had no professors,to teach them, there would be zero revenue. Zilch.
Doesn't look like instructors will be paid during the break.
As a school, faculty are critically important. No, they don't directly generate revenue, but that's a question of semantics only asked by people who need to feel useful. The fact that some folks feel the need to dump on the people who make Heald remotely feasible -- teachers -- helps explain why this school is in the shitter and we're stuck with so many students who cannot graduate.
Adjunct most certainly do sign contracts, each and every quarter. They will be paid per their contract.
Full time faculty is salaried and pay is divided between the 52 weeks so there is a check every
Pay period.
Faculty dont generate revenue, true. But we secure he continuation of revenue. Who do you think is on the front line, interacting with students every say and keeping them from dropping? Sure the ssa's do that too, but faculty are the ones making it possible by signing appeals that shouldn't be. signed, agreei g to accept ridiculous amounts of late work, etc.
I heard that faculty would not be paid at my campus also. Is this true? Do we have to teach the classes but not get paid?
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Faculty does not, nor have they ever, signed contracts.
36015 - I agree with you. Instructors contract is up at the end of each quarter. In the past, the new contract would run right behind the last one, offering pay over the breaks. My guess here is, they will start new contract the day before classes start for the next quarter. That would off them no pay for the break.
Faculty does not generate revenue. Admissions generates revenue. Your contract is for the quarter. You get paid for the classes you teach each quarter, not for work in the interim.
The college will pay us per our contracts. Failure to pay faculty is pretty much a death sentence for ED and accreditation purposes. We are the only people in the organization who actually generate revenue, so without the faculty, Heald would be toast.
I know this is a site for rumors and speculation, but do you have any evidence, beyond your own imagination, that this is going to happen?