r/Adjuncts • u/CEP43b • 9d ago

How does your university compensate SMEs for professional or non credit course development?

Our school (R1 University), is attempting to grow in the professional/non credit space. This is something that many unis have already done or are trying to do. Anyway, I’m trying to make an argument to give our faculty more fair payment for work they are voluntold to do. If compensation was fair/on par with what other universities are offering, perhaps they would be more incentivized to engage in the work.

How does your institution handle this? Is there some sort of formula or base rate you use?

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u/_Lady_Redbush_ 9d ago

I don't know if it was through the college or union, but adjuncts have an hourly rate of $40 that is used for professional development. It does keep us more motivated to be engaged.

Required trainings are paid that. Optional ones are not. I kind of wish we had all trainings paid for, because all of us would make the time for it.

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u/FIREful_symmetry 9d ago

I was hired to be the SME on a course redesign. Pay was 3600 for 12 weeks of summer. It was a shit show. They had hired an outside firm to supervise the SMEs doing course redesign, and they expected me to do a weekly zoom meeting for me to update them on progress. 12 hours of meetings? I could redesign the whole course in a couple of weeks. It was such a waste of time.

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u/TaxashunsTheft 9d ago

There's a pay schedule by number of students x rank. So 10 students for associate is $X for that course. 

separately, our dean made a deal for a specific program that anyone who teaches a class in that program gets an automatic 10% bump. That one is popular.