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As a current faculty member, I can say Wake Tech is the most exhausting job I've ever had.  There is high turnover resulting in more work added to your plate since someone has to do it. HR is slow to respond, and I frequently receive incorrect information from them. They couldn't tell me what salary I would be hired at yet they wanted a yes/no answer. It was months until I had my salary info. 

The work load is insane. New projects, requirements, mandatory training, certifications and committees get added to the list, and overall scope-creep of what faculty are required to do make the job a 7 day a week, 10 hour day job. The senior administration has not taught since typewriter days and the math they use to calculate the time spent configuring Blackboard, answering student emails, academic advising for 100+ students, prepping lecture materials, and GRADING is off by nearly 8 hours per class per week. There are no vacation days, only holidays in the academic calendar. Faculty have sick days but have to make extra assignments to cover the missed day. Departments have differing policies regarding sick days and substitutes. Your answer will depend on who you ask, even within the same department. Senior administration as well as many mid-level administration still believe if you're not on campus you're not working. Being on campus results in being roped into committees that may be irrelevant to your job duties or skill set.

Be prepared to travel. Faculty are based at a campus but could be teaching on South Campus in Fuquay Varina, RTP campus in Morrisville, or at North campus north of 540 as well as West or Health Sciences. It's a big county. Mileage is reimbursed if you have to travel to two campuses in one day. 

The information trickle is inconsistent and at times inaccurate from managers. Co-workers receive info weeks before I do because of a different manager. 

There is the opportunity for advancement. Faculty can apply to be Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor. Each level requires 3 years minimum time in (and 3 years to be eligible for the next level, plus you must continue the work that achieved the level(s) already achieved.). The requirements involve going WAY beyond what's required, and documenting it, showing numerically that you've improved something. The result if you achieve rank is a nice new title and a 3% raise. Only 3% for a LOT of extra work consistently for years. There are occasional bonuses and annual reviews can yield a raise of a couple percent. If your job requires technical expertise you will be earning less than the entry level jobs your students get after graduating with an Associate's degree.

I only plan on staying until I'm vested.  New employees aren't vested for 10 years. The good thing is that I know I'm making a difference for numerous people and helping the local economy.  The job is bad for my health, my marriage, and my family life. Al social events and hobbies I had before teaching are long gone. I get great reviews from students and co-workers and have been promoted several times, so I'm not a sucky disgruntled employee. I'm successful but exhausted.

Back to grading!!

I worked as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor for the Radiography program. The interview was a typical phone interview and was low stress. Adjuncts with an Associates degree are paid $36.50/hr, Bachelor degree Adjuncts are paid $38.50/hr.  

In terms of communication, there is a lot to be desired. Before I officially started, I had confirmed with the program head my expected schedule and the type of clinical attire to be worn when teaching clinical, I and WTCC were in agreement.

Two weeks into my assignment, I was asked to switch my days and clinical location, which would have been a conflict of interest for my FT job. 

Also, three months into my position I was pulled into the office by the clinical coordinator regarding the style of scrubs I was wearing in clinical (athletic fit) and was told that I could not wear them, even though there were no restrictions on the type of scrub style/fit and I had worn the same, exact scrubs on my first day of WTCC and multiple other occasions to campus. 

Also, I was told to report to campus on my first day, for a faculty meeting. When I reported to campus, I was informed that the faculty meeting had taken place the day prior.

In my opinion, there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of effectively communicating policies to faculty members. The program staff seemed to be disorganized.

The amount of paperwork is excessive and redundant. In my opinion, the amount of work is not worth the pay, as I was doing student paperwork on my time off. 

Most of the other faculty/staff members are very friendly and WTCC has a great workplace culture.  
 

Adjuncting for Wake Tech (Social Sciences) was essentially an exercise in worker exploitation. The department chair set unrealistic expectations (ex. 6-8 hour email turnaround, 7 days a week), particularly for part-time faculty earning $1500 per course. Micro-management to the extreme at all levels from department to college. Contracts were completed so late that the BlackBoard site was available to instructor only a few days prior to start of semester. Student feedback was largely positive, yet there were complaints from the department regarding grading/teaching style. (Ex. Student is given a clear rubric and opportunity to ask questions of the instructor, but performs so poorly that there's literally nothing to say other than "Please refer to the rubric when completing this assignment. This is unacceptable.". Instructor reprimanded for "only" saying this - more comprehensive feedback to other students was ignored.) At the end of the semester, there was no "thank you for working with us" or any such generic closing out email, which would have been the professional way to proceed regardless of whether or not an instructor is returning. Access to email/WebAdvisor was shut down at close of semester, but before contract was fully paid, so there's no access to pay information/stubs. Overall a strangely terrible and ridiculous teaching experience that I would not recommend.

This position is part of my Medical Office Administration degree program. It is a co-operative learning experienced designed to help me use my education in a real world application. I am expected to help schedule and organize all courses, faculty and student schedules in the Business and Accounting departments. I help organize this as well as proof the schedules to make sure there no over laps in times and space. I also help my supervisor grade papers and post grades online. In my spare time I have also organized three offices for more efficient record retrieval as well as organized electronic files for ease of use. Other duties I have been assigned have been the creation of statistical reports on student retention rates over the last 10 years. Lastly, I have created handouts and brochures for students and faculty.
     The atmosphere, coworkers, and management have all been a pleasure to work in and around. They all have helped take the time to learn the programs needed to do the scheduling and logistics needed. Also, they will explain the workings of how a college as large as Wake Tech runs. Though this is probably the hardest part of my job is understanding why some things are done the way they are. The most enjoyable part of my job is the variety and constantly having work to do.

I was involved in the integration component of the massage therapy program at the college. With my support and challenge, students took theoretical knowledge applied it to themselves and then to their clients. It was one of their last classes before graduation into the field. The class was one of their final attempts to use their knowledge with clients and promote their abilities to other medical practitioners. They presented a final project to their classmates and the head of the program.
I immensely enjoyed working with the students and my coworkers. The department head was supportive, skilled, and thoughtful. I had freedom to pick the textbook and design the course to promote integration of the prior classes. Each class provided a different challenge. Therefore, classes had to be tailored to suit the needs of the classes while maintaining a core curriculum - as in all classes.

When I worked there as a staff member that served the entire college, Wake Tech was a good place to work overall. There was a lot of variety in people you worked with, great chances to hone your skills and learn new ones, supporting the faculty and students was very rewarding, and the pay wasn't bad. The job was also quite stable. However advancement was non-existent and leadership had recently changed before I left and while some of the changes were pretty good, there were a lot that were bad, like some questionable restructuring of departments and my department getting folded into an unrelated one with a new supervisor who didn't understand or appreciate the work we did, so that's when I decided to leave. But while I was there, it was a very solid place to be, even if raises were hard to come by and promotions were not happening. 

Wake Tech has been a great place to make use of the experience and skills that I have developed during my career.  My background is in government relations and the college was willing to create a government affairs office to expand its outreach to the legislative and executive branches of government, as well as other organizations that support it.  At the time of this review, the search for a new president was nearing its final stages, but the history of the college in terms of its senior leadership has been distinguished and outstanding.  It's consistently rated as one of the great colleges to work for, and as my career in the public sector begins to near its end, I am so glad that I chose here as my last stop in that higher education experience.  The state allows few perks, but the administration here adds more - paid dental and vision insurance, opportunities to use fitness center and gym, professional development programs, and a willingness to allow telecommuting in many cases.

Instructing at Wake Tech in the evenings is very enjoyable and an honor.  I'm teaching my 7th group of degreed students in Math, and (now) my first group in the Verbal aspects of the GRE/GMAT exams.  

I use  a variety of media and book sources to get my students up to speed for the subject matter covered by these national tests - as well as recognizing the pitfalls and "traps" to avoid when taking them.  

It is most rewarding to see these people gain the necessary tools in my classes and then go on to graduate schools to earn their Masters degrees. 

My supervisor and co-workers are all very supportive of my work, and I'm now receiving requests to develop new courses from them, including both math and US history, too teach in the evenings in the fall.

The work itself was very rewarding because you worked directly with students and faculty. The downside was that the staff and management of this particular group was unfair and unprofessional in making sure that all employees were comfortable in learning and doing their job with the knowledge and tools needed to perform everyday task.
There was an obvious separatism between certain management and staff that caused the work environment to be hostile and inappropriate in one department. This department has had a large turnover rate due to the situation and may or may not have been resolved by upper management.

I would go there 3 minutes early and start checking out Id's and working right away.Then shelve some books. Usually there would be between 14-27 books. Then if I had nothing to do, I would check and see if everything was clean and organized. It was very well managed and the co-workers were all so sweet and friendly. The hardest part of the job was that i was the only work study student who worked in the morning. The rest worked at night. By the time I leave, I would be done with all the work and they didn't have hard work at night. Basically,all the pressure was n me, however, I never showed it to my boss.The best thing about the job was that I would have a course, then go straight to work. I enjoyed meeting new people from different places

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