[Margaret Hanzimanolis]

For the 42nd year in a row, the Chronicle of HIgher Ed’s annual Almanac has missed a critical metric, the now almost a million strong PTF labor force in higher education, a disproportionate number of whom work in the CC system.

http://chronicle.com/article/faculty-salaries-data-2012/131431#id=144050

BTW:  I’ll give you the number.  It is $24,000 a nnual income for a part time faculty working a FTE load of courses. Annual. Average. National. Pay.  From CAW report and from Adjunct Project. 

[Stacey Lee Donohue]

They seemed to have neglected to include ANY community college faculty salaries, interestingly. The link took me directly to the U of Chicago where it seems that Assistant Professors make a heck of a lot more than I do, a full professor.

But yes, Margaret, the CHE does not include part time faculty salaries. Our part timers earn anywhere from $500-700 per credit, depending on length of service, and are limited to < 1/2 to 3/4’s of a full time load (depending on status). So the top salary at our institution for a part timer making the full $700 a credit and teaching 36 credits a year is $25,200 w/moderate health benefits (that’s someone who has been teaching at 3/4 load at our college for 10+ years).

[Margaret Hanzimanolis]

Hey Stacey,

The Chronicle does not create statistics, they are secondary users of existing databases: In this case, if you go to the “about the data” tab, they indicate that they used AAUP data.  So the chronicle is simply a “reporter” of existing datasets.  The problem, of course, is in the existing datasets!!

 

In truth,however, the chronicle might have deliberately muted the CC datapoint. I suppose we must simply ask them! Or go back to their source data at AAUP and see where the train wreck is!

 

 

[Stacey Lee Donohue]

Thanks for that clarification, Margaret. I wouldn’t be surprised if AAUP doesn’t include community college figures in their own data—but surprised, given the recent attention to part timers/adjuncts, that the Chronicle didn’t at least note that absence?

[Margaret Hanzimanolis]

Hey Stacey. Is your institution in Boldt’s adjunct project database?  You can put it in at the chronicle site or perhaps even the old site (Adjunct Project).   The missing CC metric is quite puzzling.   Maybe IPEDS does not collect data by that?  Interestingly, gender came on in 1987 and for and non for profit came on in 1993.  Surprising lack–the CC data stream and the P TF pay data stream.  What is the stat? 47% of college courses are now located in the CC realm?  Are you on the two-year college discussion group?  Shall the PTF and two-year  groups write a joint letter to IPEDS?   Better make sure that the CC data isn’t there, by drilling deeper, first!!  I looked carefully for the PTF pay data!

 

 

[Stacey Lee Donohue]

Yes, COCC is in Josh’s chart which was transferred to the Chronicle’s database. The numbers entered by the few adjuncts who submitted info are a bit misleading, unfortunately, since there is such a wide pay scale—also, we are on the quarter system and get extra load for teaching composition, so the way the Chronicle calculates pay for classes (3 credit, semester course) doesn’t work for those who teach composition, especially.

I am on the Exec. Comm of the Two Year Disc. Group, yes.

I’m guessing your original theory is right: The CHE Almanac simply left off community colleges. It’s not like they can’t get the data NOW.

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