Part-Time Faculty - Reading

About the role

Part-time faculty are hired as needed on a semester-to-semester basis and typically teach up to nine credit hours during the semester. Columbia State offers classes at five campuses: Columbia Campus, Williamson Campus, Lawrenceburg Campus, Lewisburg Campus, and Clifton Campus, as well as several off-campus locations and clinical sites.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Reading or English (or a related field with a minimum of 18 semester hours in Reading or English) or hold licenses to teach Elementary K-6 or K-8.

Preferred Qualifications

• Teaching Experience
• Higher Education Experience

Responsibilities

• Preparing for courses as assigned and adhering to departmental course syllabi and course minimum student learning outcomes.
• Beginning and ending all classes as scheduled.
• Organizing, assigning, and supervising learning activities of students in assigned classes.
• Maintaining academic standards and classroom behavior to ensure an environment conducive to learning.
• Evaluating students using a variety of methods and informing each student of scores received on each assessment in a timely manner.
• Maintaining accurate records of student attendance/participation and grades.
• Reading Columbia State email and responding to student questions via email in a timely manner.
• Meeting deadlines for all administrative requests such as submitting personnel paperwork and student enrollment.

Pay

• Salary is $600 per credit hour.
• Workload adjustments will be made for faculty teaching classes where the number of contact hours exceeds the number of credit hours.
• A travel stipend may be negotiated at time of hire for faculty traveling more than 80 miles each week to teach their classes.
• For part-time faculty who continue to work at Columbia State, salary is based on collegiate-level teaching experience documented during the first semester of teaching.