Teaching for University Without Walls (UWW)

Each year, UWW asks the English Department to provide instructors for their English classes. Teaching a UWW class is not included in the 6 semesters of funding eligibility. Since Fall 2009, the MFA Program has provided instruction for English 354-Creative Writing Mixed Genre and English 254-Writing & Reading Imaginative Literature ranging throughout the year, including Summer and Winter sessions. These are online classes and the instructors must complete UWW online training in the semester prior to teaching. English 354—Creative Writing Mixed Genre is generally offered during the Summer and Winter sessions. English 254—Writing & Reading Imaginative Literature has been offered online during the past two Fall semesters only. As of December 2019, the number of enrolled students in a UWW 3-credit course taught by a graduate student must be 10 or greater for the course to be approved.

Salary: Salary is based on enrollment. The average enrollment for English 354 has been 15. It is incumbent on the instructor to recruit for the class. Suggestions for recruiting strategies are:

• Ask Celeste Stoddard (@email) in Undergraduate English office to send email out to English majors
• Ask instructors of English 254 to promote class to current students
• Putting up flyers around South College and elsewhere on campus
• If any inquiries are received from potential students who do not have the prerequisites for the class (if applicable), the instructor may waive prerequisites at their discretion. UWW must be notified that the prerequisites were waived in order for the student to enroll in the class.

As of Summer 2022, for each three-credit UWW class taught with an enrollment of 10 students, (the minimum enrollment for a class to be approved), the instructor would earn $4,468. With 12 students enrolled, the instructor would earn $5,763.

Teaching contracts are prepared by the English Department and are processed through UWW.

Benefits:

Tuition and curriculum fee:

• Fall/Spring Semesters or Winter Session: For one 3 credit course taught during the Fall or Spring semester, or during Winter Session, the instructor is eligible to receive a tuition and curriculum fee waiver, regardless of enrollment.
• Summer: For any two 3-credit courses taught over the summer, the instructor is eligible to receive a tuition and curriculum fee waiver for the Fall semester.

Health Benefits:

Health benefits are included for the semester the instructor is teaching, except for summer.

NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: International students may work 20 hours per week during the Fall and Spring semesters, and 40 hours per week during Winter Session and Summer. International students applying for a UWW position should take into consideration these work limitations as well as the uncertainty of the salary and benefits. UWW instructors work approximately 5–7 1/2 hours per week. International students who have a teaching position in the Writing Program and are offered a UWW position during the fall or spring semesters will need to work out a course reduction with the Writing Program that would take into consideration the work hour limits.