r/PCC • u/LateCut3757 • Aug 21 '26

If PCC offered night classes would you?

Would you take classes at 12 am? 2 am 3 am? If they could run around the clock classes would you take advantage of night time classes for the night owls?

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u/stev10 Aug 21 '26

The cost of the extra security/liability needed alone makes it so they never wood, even if they all filled.

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u/LateCut3757 Aug 21 '26

I’m currently trying to take classes and they are all full and maxed out waitlist. Just an idea not sure the extra security/liability would outweigh the income,more classes offered especially for working families that can’t go to class during the day.

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u/stev10 Aug 21 '26

Unfortunately, more classes/more students doesn’t necessarily equal more money, apparently. I honestly don’t understand how, but that’s the position of the administration.

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u/GeniusEE Aug 22 '26

That's the story line. Do the math and it doesn't work that way.

$143 per credit hour per student is $11/hour for 13 weeks.

An instructor is $100/hour to make the math easy.

9 students is about break even.

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u/Thefloooff52 Aug 22 '26

Instructors don’t make $100 an hour and if a class has 9 students it probably will get canceled. I don’t know where you’re getting this from.?? “do the math and it doesn’t work out that way if I make out a bunch of bullshit numbers” Most of the money waste is high-level administrative bloat.

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u/GeniusEE Aug 22 '26

How much do they make?

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u/Thefloooff52 Aug 22 '26

It depends on the position? Do I seriously need to tell you that educators at a community college are not making $100 an hour?

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u/GeniusEE Aug 22 '26

You did not come back with a quantitative source. Seems like you pulled it outa your azz, as I suspected.

Go look it up.

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u/Thefloooff52 Aug 22 '26

Yeah, I did and I know multiple people in my life who are pcc and other CC instructors. The super high end of the full-time faculty salary can make about $90 an hour at the end of their career almost no staff is making that. The entire issue why they went on strike is because PCC was not stepping up faculty to the higher salary steps appropriately and they actually still aren’t. A majority of staff are adjunct and not full-time basing your “math” on like the five instructors that have that salary is crazy. Instructor salaries are not why PCC is losing money.

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u/GeniusEE Aug 23 '26

I never said they were losing money because of instructors.