adjunct faculty

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Westchester Community College

WCC was the place everyone wanted to work. The culture was cooperative  and friendly. You never feared for your job. Then when the long time president retired and someone new came in, that all changed. Ten management positions opened because of retirements and push-out. The individuals in those positions changed three or more times in three years. There was a vote of no confidence on a VP level position. The Board of Trustees ignored staff and faculty when they complained about the new leadership and renewed the contract of the leader. Staff are being pushed out and new staff are not being hired. They are abusing those who are still there and creating a culture of fear. Staff and administrators work long hours and don't complain because they have seen complainers get fired.
The benefits are still amazing with great medical coverage and ample vacation and sick leave for staff and administrators. But, I have seen many give back their vacation time because they are afraid of taking off and coming back to be fired.   
The Students are starting to suffer also. Staff are unhappy and while they want to help students succeed it difficult to do when you do not have enough staff. The numbers they report for student success and enrollment are being altered and not representative of whats really happening at the college.

A negative by-product of union protection is the accepted norm of adjunct faculty being "bumped" by the privileged full time faculty.  Although it is understandable that full timers must be given the opportunity to maintain their contractually obligated minimum workload, there are those faculty members who consistently "overload" their semesters by taking away assignments from adjuncts.  In effect, taking badly needed money out of the pockets of adjunct faculty and adding it to their SIX-FIGURE income.  Adjuncts make up approximately 70% of the teaching staff at WCC, yet are given no protection against this kind of obvious abuse.  It is no wonder that adjunct turnover is extremely high, and as a result of inconsistent teaching, the graduation rate of WCC is less than 10%.....all while the school's liberal financial aid policy with lax control of student academic progress vs. financial disbursements is leading the school to ever increasing deficit spending, and indirectly leading to tax-payer funded welfare.  Full time faculty have proven themselves to be greedy, self-serving leeches who expect to be compensated unconditionally and outside of current norm.  

If you are thinking of working at Westchester Community College as an adjunct, I advise you to seek work elsewhere.  Faculty will stab you in the back as they smile at you and ask you if you'd like them to twist the knife a little deeper.

A typical workday included attendance, working with each students to assess their work, what their needs were, determining what a I need to do for each student to achieve their goals for the day and reviewing with the students things that must be performed for the day. Making corrections, recommendations and a positive and negative assessment at the end of the day was included.

I learned to interact with others, how to assess work, how to make improvements, how to be assertive, how to be and express concern,
how to keep my composure and how to influence others.

Working with students is a joy for me. I did not consider it hard. There were some challenges, but they improved our skills.

I enjoyed seeing the difference in the students at the end of the term. I enjoyed experiencing the transformation that is required. The end product, the confidence that was developed or exposed in each is amazing.

Overall rating was excellent.

Excellent community college where I work in Speech Communication Department.  I teach required introductory speech course which is very fulfilling as I feel the requirements of various communication skills (speaking, listening, organization, critical thinking, etc.) are very valuable to students.   I work under the supervision of the Chair of the Communications Department, who challenges the professors to include online assignments and find creative solutions to problems.  I find seeing the growth of my students the most exciting as they move from frightened speakers to more fluent, structured and self-confident communicators.  The hardest part is seeing students give up and drop the class because of their discomfort with speaking before giving it a chance in the supportive environment I create.

Loved working with students, both academically advising, teaching and counseling. Management was non supportive, red tape and politics. Benefits were great. Working alongside my colleagues and learning from them was gratifying.  All additional seminars and online convenience for my students to contact me. I was the only social lworker in a college of 33,000 students and was overworked.  Management would not go the extra mile to hire other socialworkers.

I was the technical director for the music club and stage.

Started as a liaison job to handle interactions between stage director and the music director. 

Stage director was quite the excellent teacher and provided perfect guidance and training.

duties included but not limited to:
lighting design
stage design
handling clients
hiring/recruiting
management
supervision
setup of equipment
breakdown
equipment maintenance
scheduling meeting between departments
stage work (general purpose)
change overs
and all other aspect that were not the performers and the performance itself.

WCC used to have a great working atmosphere, but the changes in management have taken staff morale to an incredible low point.  Most people agree that the working environment is now toxic since management throws their own staff under the bus in order to make themselves look good to the new president and new deans.  Policies and procedures are tossed aside regularly by IT management.  Staff remain dedicated to helping each other and the students despite the disconnect with management, and WCC seems to be on the cutting edge of technology.

The job is good for a person looking to make a few bucks and work short term. after that i suggest one find another source of income. this job for me, was not a good experience. The people that worked their in that particular department, are decent honest people. what i learned, is that physical demanding jobs will never be respected or given a fair and objective pay grade. The people that do the dirty work  make it possible for those who don t, to look down on them. the most  
enjoyable part of the job was the animals. the animals treat you better than some people do. animals don't look at other creatures like we do.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It is a great atmosphere. The students, faculty and administration are great.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Making and grading exams.  There are some students who do not hand in assignments.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very friendly and cooperative with each other

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
 I am a semi-retired adjunct and work four hours on Tuesday and Thursday and one evening online.

The beginning of the shift consists of checking work orders to be attended to within the various computer labs, running routine maintenance and updates if necessary and generally making sure the equipment and the network are running smoothly.  The management taught me how to research solutions to problems along the network and to be diligent in execution of solutions.  the hardest part of the job was learning a solution for the various things that could go wrong within a network.  The most enjoyable part of the job was correcting a network problem in order for a student to resume their workload unimpeded by faulty equipment

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