Massachusetts: To Save Money, Staff Members and Administrators Will Teach Classes at Nichols College

by E Wayne Ross on February 13, 2009

The Chronicle: To Save Money, Staff Members and Administrators Will Teach Classes at Nichols College

It’s not uncommon for staff members at Nichols College to teach classes for extra pay. But as the economy continues to worsen, a teaching load will be just part of the job for some of them.

And beginning this fall, staff members at the Massachusetts institution who aren’t yet teaching have been asked to step up to the lectern. Putting professional staff members, deans, and senior administrators in the classroom allows Nichols to shift money it would have spent paying adjunct professors’ salaries into student aid.