Adjunct_pay_for_physical_activity_classes
Gordon Hilley
My Fellow Chairs:
I am currently researching a question for the upper administration concerning how we pay our adjuncts at Del Mar College. For more than 20 years, the practice has been to pay for adjunct/overload physical activity classes by using 5/6ths of the pay rate for a three hour class. Thus, we are paying $1750 (bachelor’s degree), $2083.33 (master’s degree), and $2500 (doctorate) which is 5/6ths of what we pay for 3 hour lecture classes ($2100, $2500, and $3000). A few years ago, the college converted to paying at an hourly rate for lecture (bachelor’s = $700, master’s = $833.33, and doctorate = $ 1,000) and a rate for lab hours ($400). Since our physical activity classes are considered one hour of lecture and two hours of lab, if we paid using the hourly rates, it would result in the following: bachelor’s = $1,500, master’s = $1633.33, and doctorate = $1,800. In effect, adjunct/overload salaries for physical activity classes would be reduced to the tune of $250 (bachelor’s), $450 (masters), and $700 (doctorate).
Please let me know how physical activity classes, that are taught by adjunct faculty or as an overload for full-time faculty, are paid at your institutions. Is it based on lecture/lab hourly rates? Is it a stipend?
As you all know, finding and keeping good adjunct faculty is difficult enough without cutting their salaries. Also, enticing full-time faculty to pick up physical activity classes as an overload at a lower salary may be difficult as well.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. I would like to use any information gathered here to help bolster my case to prevent pay reductions next Spring semester.
Gordon M. Hilley, Ed.D.
Chair, Kinesiology Department
Del Mar College
East Campus
101 Baldwin Blvd.
Corpus Christi, TX 78404
Office phone: (361)698-1151
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Christopher M. Hearon
Activity-Lab/lecture rates are different. Activity/labs are at $700/teaching load credit (TLC), and activities are 2 TLCs = $1400. Undergrad lectures are at $867/TLC, most are 3 TLCs = $2600. Master’s and doctoral are more. Degree does not affect the pay. These are adjunct rate. As for overload, it is discouraged. Faculty are encouraged to bank overload hours for release time later. But, if pushed, overload would be at these same rates (i.e., NOT at the individual faculty member’s normal rate of pay).
-CMH
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Christopher M. Hearon, Ph.D., FACSM
Professor and Department Chair
Coordinator, Human Performance Laboratory
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Department of Health & Kinesiology
USPS (Letters and Packages):
700 University Blvd. (MSC 198)
Kingsville, TX 78363-8202
Packages via Commercial Carriers (FedEx, UPS):
Steinke PE Center #100
910 W. Avenue B
Kingsville, TX 78363
361-593-2141 (Fax)
Department of HKN Web Site:
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Mel Finkenberg
Unlike Chris, we cannot bank overload hours beyond the academic year they are earned.
Mel
Knudson, Duane V
At Texas State we have very few per course lecturers in the activity program. When we do have them they earn between $1000 and $1500 per course.
Duane
Bonnette, Randy
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (TAMUCC)
I’m mathematically challenged, so I’ve no clue what my totals are in terms of fractions, 1/16, 2/3’s, etc…
Also, what we use is been in place for at least 20 years (sadly) and doesn’t change no matter how many years a person has worked at TAMUCC (extremely sad).
One-hour activity class - $1,367 (regardless of degree); may use all three.
Two-hour class - $2,500 (regardless of degree); may use all three.
Three-hour class – ($2,500 w Masters; $3,000 with Doctorate), we don’t allow someone with only an undergraduate degree to teach a three-hour class.
We typically don’t hire anyone with only an undergraduate degree, but have on occasion. However, they must have some kind of credential (e.g. certification) typically by a national organization as well as experience that would indicate they are knowledgeable enough and have the experience to teach that class. So, for our two-hour First Aid/CPR course I hired one of my master’s students who is a licensed athletic trainer. Beyond her NATA certification (which was not enough, but supportive) we required that she was certified by the American Red Cross at the “Instructor” level.
Likewise, I hired a young person with only an undergraduate degree to teach weight training, but he was certified
and it was current by the National Strength and Conditioning Association with their Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. This person had the certification and had been a practicing personal trainer and strength & conditioning specialist for
a few years prior to my hire of them.
Gordon, I hope for your sake and your adjuncts Del Mar doesn’t drop down to what you describe. If so, you’ll struggle to fill get instructors as well as the unlikelihood your own professors would taking overloads to meet those needs. Your administration will soon find out when many students are being turned away from enrolling because you have no one to teach these classes the errors of their ways.
Good luck and I PRAY that doesn’t happen.
rb
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My Fellow Chairs:
Patty Donaldson
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Angelina College
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Lufkin, TX 75904
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Almstedt, Richard H
The LSC System does not differentiate between lab and lecture hours for Kinesiology classes. Our adjuncts are paid at a rate of $37.80 / contact hour. This comes out to $1814.40 / 48 hour contact class.
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My Fellow Chairs:
Scott Marzilli
Christopher M. Hearon
Our asst coaches teach most of ours and, as a rule of thumb, they are terrible.
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Christopher M. Hearon, Ph.D., FACSM
Professor and Department Chair
Coordinator, Human Performance Laboratory
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Department of Health & Kinesiology
USPS (Letters and Packages):
700 University Blvd. (MSC 198)
Kingsville, TX 78363-8202
Packages via Commercial Carriers (FedEx, UPS):
Steinke PE Center #100
910 W. Avenue B
Kingsville, TX 78363
361-593-2141 (Fax)
Department of HKN Web Site:
http://www.tamuk.edu/cehp/hkn/
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Hey Everyone,
Bonnette, Randy
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Our asst coaches teach most of ours and, as a rule of thumb, they are terrible.
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Christopher M. Hearon, Ph.D., FACSM
Professor and Department Chair
Coordinator, Human Performance Laboratory
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Patty Donaldson
Patty Donaldson
PHED Instructor/Coordinator
Angelina College
3500 S. First
Lufkin, TX 75904
office: 936-633-5435
cell: 214-507-1872
Betty Block
At A&M – Commerce we pay 5 coaches ½ of their salaries to teach activity classes. Their salaries equal 46% or our salary expenditures for approximately 5% of the credit hours generated. We pay them over $220.00 an hour (not a credit hour, an hour)! The dean and I have not been able to convince the President to get them out of teaching because, of course, the AD reports directly to the President. He reports that they are excellent teachers (regardless of what our teaching evaluations report) and that they are doing us a favor teaching for us . . . Any suggestions?
Betty
Betty A. Block, Professor
Department Head Health and Human Performance
College of Education and Human Services
P.O. Box 3011
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
Betty...@TAMU-Commerce.edu
Gordon Hilley
Fellow Chairs:
My original question has more to do with how adjuncts are paid to teach physical activity classes. Fortunately, Del Mar College does not have intercollegiate athletics. Therefore, I do not have to deal with coaches teaching Kinesiology classes. What I really need to know is: Are your adjuncts paid based on a stipend? If so, what is the stipend? Or, are your adjuncts paid based on a lecture/lab hour formula? If so, what is the formula? Also, does the degree (bachelor’s, master’s , doctorate) held by the adjunct factor in?
Thank you.
Gordon
McCabe, D. R.
All adjuncts in our area are paid $1000 per credit hour, regardless of degree or type of class (lecture vs. lab). Good luck Gordon.
D. Rozena McCabe, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Kinesiology
Leave No Trace Board of Directors - www.lnt.org
Huston-Tillotson University - www.htu.edu
900 Chicon
Austin, TX 78702
Gordon Hilley
Clarification: Are adjuncts who teach physical activity classes paid by the credit hour or by the contact hour? At Del Mar College, physical activity classes are one credit hour but three contact hours.
Rogers, Toby
Our adjuncts are paid $500 per credit hour. It goes up a little with Ph.D. and rank advancement. We get 1.5 hours teaching credit for a 1hr activity course that meets 2 hrs/week. So typical adjunct pay for an activity course is $750. Toby
Toby J. Rogers, Ph.D., MPT
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences Chairman
(806) 720-7857 office
McCabe, D. R.
Adjuncts are paid $1000 per credit hour. Our activity classes are one credit hour, but meet three contact hours per week.
D. Rozena McCabe, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Kinesiology
Leave No Trace Board of Directors - www.lnt.org
Huston-Tillotson University - www.htu.edu
900 Chicon
Austin, TX 78702
McCabe, D. R.
During the TAHPERD convention I am presenting a session on kinesiology articulation agreements. The program will focus primarily on agreements between two-year and four-year colleges. However, I would also like to include examples of agreements with professional programs (PT, chiropractic, etc.). Please contact me if your department has an agreement with another institution and you are willing for me to share this information at convention. I would also like to include any “pros and cons” that you may have experienced with your articulation agreements.
Thank you for your assistance.
Smith, Darla
Hi Rozie
UTEP has an articulation agreement with EPCC, which includes shared financial aid. In other words, they can take 6 hours at EPCC and 6 at UTEP and be considered a full time student for financial aid purposes. There are other agreements between the campuses at the university level, but I am not aware of a specific agreement between Departments of Kinesiology. Many of our students (probably a majority) do begin at EPCC and we do accept most of their transfer work, so long as they take the right courses.
The “agreement” with PT is not really an articulation. We have a degree plan which will satisfy the prerequisites for entrance into PT and we developed this plan with their blessing. However, the students still have to compete for admission.
Darla
Darla R Smith, PhD
Professor – Retired
Department of Kinesiology
University of Texas at El Paso
McCabe, D. R.
During the TAHPERD convention the College Administrators & K-12 Administrators Sections will have a joint presentation (Friday, 9:15am-10:15am, Houston Ballroom A) The intent is to provide a forum similar to the AIM conference in which both groups of administrators (and PETE faculty if available) have an opportunity to network and exchange ideas. To help us structure the dialog, could you please email to me any “pressing issues” that you are facing which relate to the interface between University programs and K-12 programs. Thank you.
Knudson, Duane V
Placement of student teachers
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Betty Block
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During the TAHPERD convention the College Administrators & K-12 Administrators Sections will have a joint presentation (Friday, 9:15am-10:15am, Houston Ballroom A) The intent is to provide a forum similar to the AIM conference in which both groups of administrators (and PETE faculty if available) have an opportunity to network and exchange ideas. To help us structure the dialog, could you please email to me any “pressing issues” that you are facing which relate to the interface between University programs and K-12 programs. Thank you.