At Ohio University, adjuncts who had to travel more than 15 miles to the
campus were paid mileage until two years ago when that was phased out.
The situation you describe is a real distance-learning problem. Is there
any way you can deliver instruction electronically, at least part of the time?
At 10:15 PM 8/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I will be teaching a course (the Managerial Econ course that for which I
>requested suggestions in a previous message) at a new "satellite campus"
>that is about a 2 hour plane ride away (I am in the LA area and the new
>campus is in the Bay Area). My university only wants to pay the "normal"
>overload amount - the same that I would get for teaching a graduate course
>at our main campus. The other instructors and I think that we should get an
>extra amount because of the long commute.
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>If any of you or your institutions have been involved in such a situation,
>how is it handled? My guess (my hope) is that other colleges give a premium
>for such an arrangement. Armed with that data, I will try to convince my
>university that they should do likewise.
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>Please be as specific as possible in terms of distance/time and any pay
>differential.
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>Thanks.
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>E.B.
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>E.B. Gendel, Ph.D.
>Professor of Economics
>Director of External Programs
>School of Business and Management
>Woodbury University
>7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
>Burbank, CA 91510-7846
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>v: 818 767-0888 ext. 334
>f: 818 504-9320
>e: gendel@vaxb.woodbury.edu
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Joseph M. Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Department of Economics, Accounting and Business
Muskingum College
New Concord, OH 43762
(740) 826-8206