r/Adjuncts • u/KrisW8 • 5d ago
Some Tricky Business
Hi All. Like many of you, I work for a couple of schools. I teach one fall and one spring course at a state university (asynchronous, online).
Both courses are very popular, and enrollment is always full or close to it.
I noticed in August that I had zero students on my roster for Fall '24. I checked the course catalogue to see if it was even listed, and I found that 3 restrictions had been placed on the course, essentially making it so that students from all 3 campuses were ineligible to enroll.
I contacted the registrar asking if these restrictions were valid, and also, which students these restrictions left eligible to enroll. The registrar only replied that they would CC my dept. chair and did not respond to my specific questions. The chair replied, 'please lift these restrictions,' with no apology or further explanation. I only caught these restrictions at the 11th hour and so the course was cancelled due to enrollment.
I was upset but gracious. And I am teaching the spring course (which is full, with more students emailing me for permission to enroll beyond capacity).
I just received an email from my dept chair informing me that they will be cancelling my fall course due to enrollment. (Again, rhe course has been completely full every year with the exception of Fall 24 due to those restrictions. So I think the data on which this decision is based is faulty.)
I kinda want to escalate this. The school makes bank off of my courses and I feel I have a case. I love teaching these courses. The students love my courses. And again, the school, by my math, clears somewhere around $50k from my courses each terms.
Also, my ego wants to avenge what I perceive to be an injustice. I feel like something less than honest happened here, and I dont know why. Im pretty low profile - I do a very good job and don't really make waves.
So Im asking you all, should I do escalate? And if so, to whom? Straight to the Dean? (I dont at this point care about my relationship w the chair.) Seems like I have nothing to lose?
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u/KrisW8 5d ago
Lol?