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[langleymass]

A local friend of mine was supposed to teach a class. I just heard it from him that the class has been cancelled. He was told that he can get a class up in April if he can find just six students for it.

What else has everyone been seeing out there? Are more and more classes like this getting cancelled?

 

[ecobb]

When I was in college, my history class was canceled one day because the teacher was hungover.

Would care to elaborate a little more on your question? What kind of class was it? What was he teaching? Was it a full college course or just a "one nighter"?



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[Stella740pl]

If I got you right, your friend is an adjunct [professor?] in some college or maybe tech. school, and the whole course was cancelled because not enough students signed up for it. Also, I think, he was doing it for the first time. Right?

Well, my husband is teaching, too. It happens once in a while, not often. I don't think there is a tendency. Say, you can get more than enough students for required courses, but not always enough for electives, especially if that elctive course is a hard one. You can get more students for the fall or winter semester than for summer, especially for hard subjects. Students tend to take "easy" subjects for the summer, if at all. And so on. Also may depend on many other factors.

 

[langleymass]

Actually he isn't a professor. He was just a guy who was asked to teach a comptuer class of some type. I think the emphasis was on security. I think it was one of those classes that tells the unsuspecting folks--"take our class and make big bucks."

 

[Stella740pl]

So where was this class to take place? For general public? In college? In some type of office environment for the employees? A whole course or a single class? Who would have to be paying for it (students, their employer, etc.)? If it's for general public, was it well advertised, etc.? It's hard to generalize on tendencies with not enough information.

 

[SQLSister]

If you are talking about 1 day to 1 week classes, yes many of these don't make the numbers and get cancelled especially if they are an advanced subject. When our .Net programmer needed an advanced course in some security issue, it took months and several vendors before he got a course that wasn't cancelled for lack of numbers

If the instructor is not a full-time employee, he probably won't get paid.

My art instructors face this same problem and what they do is market the class themselves by calling/emailing former students or others they know might be interested (like students who took the beginner clases). It ensures a more consistent payday for them at the cost of some unpaid hours of work. Life is like that when you are not on salary.

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