tenured, research-oriented faculty might be

by HumanRobot , Cybertron, Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 11:07 (3997 days ago) @ oviedoirish

And you might be right about business professors, but teaching faculty in any school are almost certainly getting the short end of a stick.

I taught a class at ND as an adjunct research faculty in the college of engineering. The pay was $9,000/course (this is on top of my salary as research faculty). Considering my responsibilities to my grant, I couldn't teach and maintain anything resembling a work/life balance and I'd say that even spending 60-80 hours a week at work overall (research and teaching), teaching one measly course probably ate up a third of my working time.

I'm sure that people get really efficient at teaching, but man, teaching 6 courses a year would be really intense and that's barely over the US median income. That said, I'm sure other schools have entirely different pay structures that might make teaching more lucrative. Maybe that's the case at UCF, so your mileage may vary.

I know that some huge breadwinner faculty make a lot of money, but by and large the rank and file faculty are victims in the whole higher ed structure at this point.