Letter: Columbia Basin College needs more full-time staff

According to the Office of Financial Management, Columbia Basin College only has 95 full-time instructors out of all 689 employees.

This means that there are a large number of adjuncts, or part-time instructors who get paid very small wages. In fact, there are 335 adjuncts at CBC, which is nearly 50 percent of total employees.

As a student at CBC I have had adjunct instructors who were excellent, but I have also had bad experiences with adjuncts. Because these part-time instructors usually have no training support, no office hours, and are largely unsupervised, the quality of their instruction tends to be inconsistent.

This also raises a moral issue, since adjuncts get paid an extremely low wage for doing the same amount of work as full-time professors, which is rather unfair. CBC could improve the quality of its instruction by increasing its full-time staff.

This story was originally published November 29, 2015 at 5:39 PM with the headline "Letter: Columbia Basin College needs more full-time staff."