Aug. 7

Will Adjuncts Pay to Be Certified?

Led by a long-time adjunct and former University of Phoenix administrator, a new business announced plans Wednesday to offer certification to adjuncts. The idea is to provide training on teaching and then to test adjuncts on that training before providing a certificate that could be used to impress would-be employers. One more thing: The program costs $395, and renewals cost $75 a year.

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Whether the business will take off remains to be seen. But the Society of Certified Adjunct Faculty Educators says that participants in beta testing said that they found the program helpful, and that officials at several colleges have already expressed interest in using the certificates — even perhaps paying for adjuncts to participate or indicating that they prefer candidates with certification.

When many adjuncts start teaching, “they don’t know what they are doing.... They are going into it blindly,” said Rochelle Santopoalo, the president and founder of the company. Santopoalo is an adjunct at Phoenix and at Benedictine University, and she has worked off and on as an adjunct for 21 years. Formerly she was academic affairs manager for Phoenix’s Chicago campus, and in that capacity, she sat in on numerous classes, leading to her conviction that training is essential for part-timers. “I saw hundreds of faculty, teaching all kinds of courses,” she said.

The curriculum for certification is focused on 10 “core competencies,” on which participants would be tested. The competencies include: staying current in one’s discipline, the ability to “construct and deliver course content aligning objectives, methodology and evaluation that supports the learning objectives,” using “appropriate teaching strategies that active engage students,” the ability to work with diverse student populations, the ability to use technology to support classroom objectives, and so forth.

Santopoalo said she thought many adjuncts would welcome the training, and the opportunity to demonstrate their skills through certification. In an era when some adjuncts complain about lacking health insurance, will they pay $395 for certification?

“We debated that [the price] may be too high, but colleagues I ran this by said it was modest and too low,” Santopoalo said. “From a professional development standpoint, what you get for that price is a lot. People blow that money on so many other things for which they don’t get real value,” Santopoalo said. “I don’t think it’s an exorbitant amount of money. We are looking for the people who are really invested and see themselves teaching for some time.”

She also said that as colleges see the value of certification, they may pick up the tab.

Whether the service will take off remains to be seen.

Desna Wallin, a University of Georgia professor who is the editor of Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator’s Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers, said that certification “may appeal as a short-cut to colleges seeking qualified adjuncts.” But she doubted that much time would be saved, as colleges will still want to check out those they are about to put in classrooms. Further, she said that if certification catches on and those seeking it must pay for it, “it would be another financial burden on already underpaid adjuncts.”

Keith Hoeller, chair of the Adjunct Faculty Committee of the Washington State Conference of the American Association of University Professors, said he was bothered by the premise of the new business. “The assumption behind certifying adjuncts appears to be that adjuncts are somehow lacking in both knowledge and teaching skills to do an effective job in the classroom. I do not agree with this assumption, and I have seen no evidence to support it,” he said.

Since both new adjuncts and new tenure-track professors emerge from the same graduate programs, either with or without training for the classroom, he said it was wrong to assume the adjuncts “are somehow inferior to full-time tenure stream faculty,” adding that the new business “appears to be trying to fill a need that does not exist.”

The new business prompted discussion Wednesday on an e-mail list for adjuncts. One person suggested that the concept could be positive for adjuncts — especially if some sort of training (paid for by someone else) led to increased pay. Others appeared skeptical, with one person writing: “Is there perhaps a Society of Indentured Servants as well? Complete with certification. Pay money and someone will count and certify the number of holes in your head.”

— Scott Jaschik

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Comments

Only in America

Why are we not surprised that another higher ed money making scheme emanates from the ubiquitous proprietary sector? One could argue that the marketplace is the ultimate beta test. On the other hand, if a Harvard put forth this proposal, it might be embraced posthaste as an idea who time is long overdue. Me? I’m not buying it. Unless the adjunct sub-class organizes, with benefits.

Van Veen, at 7:45 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Quick Fix has Downside

The author of Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty [Jossey-Bass, 2007] and two books for part-timers themselves, I have been involved in the development of adjunct instructors’ teaching and course management skills for nearly 20 years. While recognizing the need to provide colleges and universities with convenient resources that prepare and support their part-timers in a systematic way, I see red flags in the cost and quality of this service. Those who are responsibile for the instructional effectiveness of adjunct faculty owe it to themselves to investigate other approaches, including AdjunctSuccess.net. It provides a series of 15 instructional webinars, access to printable and online resources, an eNewsletter of teaching tips, and online mentoring. This comprehensive set of resoucres could be used easily as a basis for institutional certification — an approach that would likely impress accreditors much more than outsourcing the entire effort. And AdjunctSuccess.net costs only 10% of this approach.

Richard Lyons, at 8:00 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Lousy Idea

Yep. Just what adjuncts need: another expense, another hoop to jump through, and more paperwork to fill out. You don’t need to be certified to teach a course for $500, you need to be certifiable. Or just broke.

It’s quite an innovation when you find a way to split the lowest class of teachers in two and create one yet lower class, the teacher who has ponied up to the University of Phoenix, that highly reputable arbiter of pedagogical success.

The first poster nailed it: this is just another way to milk a vulnerable sector of the market. That said, it might just look good to administrators because it’s one more way to reduce performance a number, letter, or other simple metric (in this case the old zero-sum certified/uncertified).

JP Craig, at 8:15 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Snake Oil?

Eh, who “certified” the ability of the company to effectively teach these subjects?

Anyone can start a business, qualified and competent or not?

Are they accredited?

Teacher certification programs already exist in a variety of forms!

If I were in the position of hiring adjunct faculty I would be very cautious about accepting these certifications, which appear to do nothing, but add cost and a “middleman".

We don’t need people with more credentials! We need better educated individuals with fewer credentials.

dundermifflin, at 8:30 am EDT on August 7, 2008

This would be funny if it were not so sad. Is The University of Phoenix going to introduce a certification program for migrant workers next?

Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University, at 8:35 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Correction

I think I was too busy spluttering coffee to edit well, so here’s a correction:

It’s quite an innovation when you find a way to split the lowest class of teachers in two and create one yet lower class, the teacher who has NOT ponied up to the University of Phoenix, that highly reputable arbiter of pedagogical success.

JP Craig, at 8:50 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Missing an important point

While I don’t disagree with any of the previous comments, I do think that there is an important point being missed. Adjuncts (as with most college faculty regardless of status) receive little formal education about how to teach. As institutions utilize adjuncts and part-time faculty more frequently, it is important that we develop effective approaches that provide these instructors with support and resources...so that they become effective teachers.

Professor-in-training, at 9:05 am EDT on August 7, 2008

A number of universities already offer preparing future faculty programs, gratis. I was involved in one, and I learned a great deal about teaching, course design, and nearly all of the “core competencies” recommended by the University of Phoenix; the rest, I picked up early in grad school.

More useful, I think, would be a program that encourages universities to hire more tenure-track faculty.

Humanities Grad Student, at 9:35 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Sick and depressing

No. Is it not enough that these people are academic gypsies, now they should pay (out of their abundant, benefit free salaries) for the privilege of having virtually no privileges. This is a craven attempt to shift the cost of qualifying candidates away from the university and spin it as improvement rather than abdication of responsibility.

Once upon a time, a masochist walked up to a sadist and said, “Hurt me, please". The sadist just smiled and said “No".

Anonymous, at 9:50 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Adjuncts Pay?

Adjunct faculty ought to be expected to pay to be “certified” when all faculty with graduate degrees hired by colleges and universities pay to be certified.

The idea that a third-party be responsible for making certain that part-time faculty are qualified to be placed in the classroom is simply absurd. Colleges and universities need to change their hiring practices so that ALL faculty are hired using the same rigorous hiring methods. That will, of course, cost money.

This proposed business would pass that cost on to the adjunct faculty member, and allow university officials to continue to abrogate their responsibilities to make sure that the faculty member in the classroom is the best-trained, most qualified and able candidate.

P.D. Lesko, Executive Editor, Adjunct Advocate magazine, at 10:25 am EDT on August 7, 2008

LOL

A certification process would only make sense if the majority of adjuncts were career professional with limited experience with higher education, but as cited in the article, contingent faculty have the same potential to be effective teachers as anyone who have the luck of making it onto the tenure track. This certification process, like the one in the K-12 system, is an expensive and useless hurdle that will not ensure teaching quality. If universities want high quality teaching, they need to support their faculty, TT and contingent, to do work expected as a professor. No shortcuts will do the job.

Jarod HM, at 10:25 am EDT on August 7, 2008

We should begin certifying business to ensure that they are qualified to work in the field of education and fulfill minimum requirements of social responsibility.

Anonymous, at 10:25 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Adjuncts not trained to teach?

This is the most ludicrous “solution” to the adjunct problem I’ve heard yet. It’s flat-out insulting to insinuate that adjuncts must “prove their worth” as if their degrees are comparatively worthless.Adjuncts have received at least as much training as other people with their degrees in how to teach and manage a classroom, often more due to jumping through administrative hoops and “required training” at multiple colleges and universities.

I’d like to see someone propose that we charge tenure-track faculty a fee, then train and test them to prove they can teach! After all, they’re making the comparative big bucks with benefits, so surely they can afford the $395...

habeas, at 10:35 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Adjunct certification

A number of institutions already require certification. I have been certified in a different system- that does not require an annual fee associated with it. The training differs according to where you receive it- and there is no one right way to teach online. Also, where is academic freedom in this? Are we automatons who must teach all alike? And if I can’t get an institution to pay for this training- then it comes out of the little pay I already receive. I am not thrilled about this idea. It sounds too much like one institution’s attempt to dominate the certification process for profit.

My response- after the full-time tenured faculty get certified.

Rosina Hassoun, Adjunct Assistant Professor, at 11:20 am EDT on August 7, 2008

What a Sham!!!!

This is a big time sham!!! Any college or university that adopts this should be tarred and feathered!!! Colleges and universities already have enough multiple resources to gauge adjunct faculty teaching effectiveness. At my campus, adjuncts have the option of getting a certification of teaching...for free!!!! Moreover, departments vet adjunct candidates carefully anyway...Finally, adjuncts get paid peanuts and maybe a pat in the back; all adjuncts around the country should reject this unequivocally unless they want less money in their pocket.

Roger, at 11:20 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Certification for Full-Time Professors

Why should adjuncts be put through more hoops? Please inform me of the certification process of full-time professors. There are probably just as many lousy adjuncts as there are full time professors. At least it’s easy to get rid of the bad adjuncts.

denise, at 11:20 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Outrageous!

This is an outrage! Pay to be an adjunct instructor? With what? The school at which I teach is so grateful (and conscience-stricken?) to have so large a pool of cheap labor that its teaching and learning center regularly offers workshops to adjuncts.

adjunct instructor, adjunct instructor, at 11:45 am EDT on August 7, 2008

Certification for Adjuncts

Wow! Another way to make money! Full time professors don’t have to be certified; why would anyone require — or even NEED — adjuncts to be? Don’t the organizations that support the idea of certification ask that prospective adjuncts do a “sample teaching” before hiring?I can understand doing this for a substitute teacher in K-12 — but NOT college! Or are we trying to make college just an extension of high school? Or is someone just trying to find another way to make money — especially from people who don’t make much anyway?

Chris Baack, Asst. Prof of Geology at Tarrant County College, at 12:40 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

Not UOP Venture: Check your reading skills!

Truth to tell, I don’t care as much about this issue as many of my colleagues appear to do. Perhaps my lower emotional involvement allowed me to maintain my “core competency” of being able to read? Whatever (as they say), let me put this article and its content in proper context for those who may wish to comment further without taking the trouble to read it:

1. This is not a University of Phoenix venture. The only connection mentioned is that the entrepreneur-founder of the organization (the Society of Certified Adjunct Faculty Educators, SCAPE) used to work for UOP. 2. It will not succeed (imo), because it competes with, rather than serves, the business models of UOP, DeVry, et al.3. The article is of a type that we endure far too often in InsideHigerEd, namely, a PR piece disguised (thinly, I guess we should be glad to note) as objective higher education news and comment.

The article’s lead question, whether adjuncts will “pay to be certified,” seems to have struck a nerve. It would be better to ask, “what can SCAPE provide that adjuncts would be willing to pay for?” Of course, many such organizations (business, professional, trade, etc.) aspire to a gateway function for its membership: You need their certification to get a job. But where that function is what you pay for, it has to be the case that employers will pay more for certified candidates (or, if the supply is good, they just won’t hire non-certified candidates). SCAPE proposes to certify its membership as possessing ten “core competencies” (follow the article’s link to the list), but almost all of those competencies will compete with, or at least confound, the business practices of large, successful online education companies, which have well developed and *layered* instructional implementation systems that assess teaching candidates and train them to company performance criteria and standards. The “aligning” and other ed-speak competencies offered by SCAPE are not in the job descriptions of new-hire adjunct teachers at the online for-profits.

Rod Bell, Adjunct Professor at College of DuPage, at 1:40 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

“Will Adjuncts Pay to Be Certified?”

As an adjunct instructor at a local college in New Jersey, I can see the validity of this program. However, there are too many tenured professors with PhDs who are not adequately equipped to be in the classroom, but are hired simply because of their degree. Many adjuncts in community colleges already have a great deal of in-class teaching experience and have no need of such a certification program. There are, however, too many colleges who do not pay attention to the vast differences between those lower level, real teaching experience, masters degree instructors and the upper echelon of the doctoral degreed professors. PhDs are wonderful to have, but a student really needs a professor who knows how to teach. It would be in the best interest of community colleges and their student bodies to first take into consideration the actual amount of real teaching experience that a potential instructor has, instead of simply hiring PhD degreed individuals. Knowledge of a subject matter, coupled with a PhD, does not automatically mean one can actually teach that subject.

T. Barrett, at 3:00 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

No Way

As an adjunct there is no way I would pay this amount for certification. That would be a significant chunk out of my pay as it is. However, I am blessed to be an administrator at a university that takes pride in offering support, training, and resources to all instructional staff.

Onenine08, at 3:00 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

This is a slippery slope in another way. How valid and reliable are these certification tests? Has this organization done the proper test development? And, do they have some sort of means of standing behind the certification when they get sued by an institution who perceives a value in the certification and then has expectations that are not met by a “certified” individual?

Testing Professional, at 3:05 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

While I think the notion of teacher certification is interesting, I object to the suggestion that part-time folks need a certification not required of full-time faculty. In California, the requirements to teach at a community college, for example, are the same whether a person is full- or part-time. To suggest that simply because one teaches part-time s/he needs more training than a full-time person is one more way that part-time faculty are marginalized. San Diego State Univ offers all CC faculty an opportunity for additional training — training that will surely be helpful to any teacher,regardless of their employment arrangement with the college. We all can benefit from on-going professional development; let’s not continue suggesting that part-time faculty need it more than their full-time counterparts.

drdelo, at 3:20 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

Folks,The College Board, which is subject to no oversight or certification, sells college credits at $18/3 (it’s called AP). Is it surprising some other private corporation with an eye to high profits has come up with an equally ludicrous idea?

Judith, at 6:50 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

silly is as silly does

I spent yesterday afternoon interviewing several adjuncts for openings we have for fall classes. I can’t imagine how some “certificate” would have made any favorable difference. All were qualified on paper, but some were considerably less attractive than the others once we chatted with them, whether it was their sense of what we do, what students need, how to teach in general, or how to teach writing in particular.

Frankly, I’m not sure how such a certification program could even work. It strikes me as a one-size fits all approach to pedagogy, though one pedagogy may fit one discipline better than others. Our local regional university has a “teaching composition” certification program as part of the MA and MFA in English. I went through a similar sort of class as a student, one that barely prepared me to teach, but when coupled with a mentor and some observation time, panned out. Do other disciplines offer this sort of training as part of a graduate program before putting TAs in the classroom?

All of our new hires are recent graduates and will need some hand holding, for which we provide them a mentor and other support, but, in getting back to a certificate, however well intentioned it may be, and I assume it is, I don’t see any value to their students and future faculty in the long or short term.

bradley bleck, instructor at Spokane Falls CC, at 6:50 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

Absolutely Not!

I won’t pay for one more “certification” which is nothing more than an absurd hurdle to add to the already burdened life that some of us have as non-tenured instructors and an opportunity for administrators to make some money!!

If a “certificate” is needed to hire us as adjunct instructors, it is only fair that it should be an additional requirement of everyone who is hired to teach at a college or university, regardless of their hiring status/label: adjunct, lecturer, visiting professor or assistant professor.

Mara

Mara, Ph. D., at 8:30 pm EDT on August 7, 2008

Save Your Money

As a adjunct educator if you are concerned that your teaching skills may need some polish save yourself almost $300.00 and purchase and read the three books that comprise the core of the Society of Certified Adjunct Faculty Educators’ program. The three books are:

Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom (2006, 2nd Ed.) by Stephen Brookfield, $30.40, ISBN-13: 978-0787980665

Tools for Teaching (1993) by Barbara Gross Davis, $37.60, ISBN-13: 978-1555425685

Teaching at Its Best: A Research-based Resource for College Instructors (2007, 2nd Ed.) by Linda B. Nilson, $30.40, ISBN-13: 978-1882982646

The authors of the books will appreciate your support!

C. Andrews, at 9:00 pm EDT on August 8, 2008

This individual needs to go to the school of entrepreneur as it appears that she wants to begin a business to make money,which can add to the already difficult time adjuncts are having. Adjunct exist in different categories. Some adjuncts are full-time professors somewhere else or in their current university. Some are retired, distinguished and published scholars in their fields; some are not teachers, they are just trying to make some money. It is a mix of bag of people that constitute adjuncts. Maybe she needs to understand the meaning of adjuncts, as she was only an instructor, it seams. She was not an adminstrator of adjuncts where she prepares their compensation. There is a high degree of ignorance and lack of critical thinking skills involved in this idea of certifying adjuncts. If she is trying to explore a start-up business she can contact me for excellent ideas without cost, or approach SCORE for assistance, as this is an insult to adjuncts. She is not guaranteeing any job but guaranteeing their training and how much she can make. Adjuncts will always go through training at the university where they are hired. It will remain necessary and important. That will never stop. This potential business woman needs to understand how businesses are created; that it is not a poorly thought of ideas, it requires critical thinking—a lot of it.

Adjuncts are like any other professor, with appropriate credentals to teach lke any other profesor. Please bury your head in the sand and when you get out of it, conact me or SCORE and you can be guranteed a business start-up with potential for prosperity. Although, we live in a capitalist country, it does not mean that you can just make money without good ideas, especially as a scholar, is she a scholar?

John Wilson

John Wilson, at 1:25 pm EDT on August 10, 2008

NO WAY

I applaud all of the articulate folks who took the time to state why this is an awful idea. I can’t bring myself to do so. The idea is simply too ridiculous

My grad school funding got cut off. The only jobs I could find quickly were adjunct positions, and as soon as I can find a full time job with benefits, I intend never to adjunct again. Adjuncting is stressful and an absolute career dead end.

JAP, at 5:20 am EDT on August 13, 2008

As an adjunct who CHOOSES to be an adjunct while I pursue my Ph.D., I am appalled by this frightening turn of events. As if it isn’t bad enough that adjuncts have to beg every semester for a job, some wheeler-dealer diploma mill is searching for yet another way to make money. What makes a Ph.D. any more capable of teaching than an MA with multiple years of experience? Nothing. My evaluations speak for themselves. Certificate? Junk. No need! My students say that my class is the best they’ve ever taken, and I have no certificate. This is just setting a horrifying precedent.

Jill Dahlman, Adjunct Professor at University of Hawaii system, at 5:25 am EDT on August 13, 2008

Often adjuncts know more about teaching than their full-time colleagues who are more interested in research and their expertise in their field than their expertise as teachers. They often teach the way they were taught which is rarely the best methodology for today’s students.

Gary Pandolfi, Adjunct Associate Prof. of English at Quinnipiac University, at 7:25 am EDT on August 13, 2008

I strongly agree with Keith Hoeller. Adjuncts attend the same schools and receive the same training as full-time instructors. Phoenix is simply trying to drum up business.

Lillian Polak, Professor, at 10:50 am EDT on August 13, 2008

Ridiculous

I think this idea is ridiculous, not to mention condescending. The community college and university system is already making an incredible amount of money on “adjuncts,” so why on earth would they expect them to pay 395 dollars for a certification test? What are master’s degrees worth in this day and age?

Anonymous (and slightly angry)

Professor Anonymous, at 11:25 am EDT on August 13, 2008

Lame Adjunct Certification

Having Adjucts get certified almost defeats the point. One’s experience and recommendations from peers and administrators should be their certification. How else does one gain experience in the academic field? They don’t. They learn by doing it. An intro course may help one know what to expect, but teaching skill and methods can only be improved and honed with experience.Just speaking from experience. : )

Gabriel, at 12:16 pm EDT on August 13, 2008

A LITTLE STORY

Many years ago, when I first started teaching part-time, I went to my department chair to discuss some of the many problems facing the part-time staff. After he expressed his lack of interest, he then launched into a profane attack on one of the instructors. The instructor in question was clearly not qualified for the position and had some ethical issues as well. (He later ended up in prison for abuse.) The chair fumed about having people like this instructor in the department.

I asked him, “Well, who hired him?”

“Well...the chairs of departments have the right to hire and fire as they see fit."Notice the bureaucratic language—not actually saying that he had hired this person.

“So the competent instructors have no say in these matters. It’s up to the full time chairs to make these decisions.”

Silence.

“We’re done here,” said the sausage grinder—who would put anyone in front of his comp classes to get the students passed through the requirement. Talk about blaming the victims and matters of competence!

That story happened over thirty years ago. The current certification scam is just another way to “outsource” work that the full-time faculty and administrators should be doing. I wouldn’t be surprised if some sort of national clearinghouse for temps might catch on with these folks. If you hang around most colleges and universities for very long, you’ll witness many tales of shirking and skirting of best practices when the grinder needs to be loaded.

DR. NO, at 10:45 am EDT on August 14, 2008

certification of university-college teachers/instructors

Those of us who have been educated through the traditional K-12 teaching programs with academic knowledge, with teacher certifications, and have experienced the educational, experiential, and in depth teaching history — no matter what level — understand the need for those “outside” of this background — to acquire what we have ingrained into our beings. It may just be what the the adjuncts need to deepen their sensitivity and background knowledge for how important the educational methods and other classes are for successful teaching results. Not all humans are gifted teachers/instructors/professors — and even they along with the novices, could take lessons on how to address the teaching/learning requirements that improve the acquisition of knowledge environment. My experiences teaching elementary school 3/5 grades, high school Russian Language and the range of World History, foreign/ second language acquisition/ESL/Russian/Humanities and the full range of Education courses, have exposed me to what it takes to educate humans. My teacher/students in the MA ED program offer innovative and valid projects that reveal how important their Education and teaching backgrounds impact the picture of teaching. Those outside of the teaching world come to this program to LEARN HOW TO TEACH, and they leave with a beginning of knowledge in this professional realm. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO VALIDATE WHAT THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION ACROSS THIS NATION ARE IMPARTING TO FUTURE TEACHERS. If all educators across the range of Education from pre school to post graduate levels- were required to be schooled in what EDUCATION METHODOLOGY AND EXPERIENCES are worth — then there would be a level of teaching existing that could bring most Americans to a high level of understanding and achievement in their chosen fields. BRAVO FOR BEGINNING THIS EFFORT FOR OFFERING A PROGRAM TO CERTIFIY EDUCATORS OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL K-12 SYSTEM — IT IS A FORWARD THINKING EFFORT AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT TO BE A REQUIREMENT FOR TEACHING IN ANY FIELD, AT ANY LEVEL.

Dr. Kathryn Zalevsky Kittides, Faculty/Advisor MA ED degree program at Central Michigan University-Troy, at 12:30 pm EDT on August 16, 2008

English

I agree with the professor who said it seemed that adjuncts were lower than tenured professors. I was a certified teacher who taught in junior high schools and high schools. I don’t think that I needed to be re-certified to teach in a college setting. I taught as an adjunct for 20 years at Del Mar College. Some of the tenured teachers have never been certified to teach. They have gone to teach at colleges right after getting their degrees. Some adjuncts may not have been certified, but neither have those tenured professors. So, I don’t think it is fair to make adjuncts pay to be certified if they have already been certified to teach in public schools.

Maria Mijares, adjunct retired teaher at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, at 8:15 pm EDT on August 17, 2008

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