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[whydoiadjunct]

I have lost several of my students to another teacher who is over-enrolling his/her classes. S/he is very popular and I am new. Is there anything I can do? How is losing students in the first week judged by the chair of the department or dean? Is this something I should worry about? I feel like I need to go into class and do backflips and pirouettes to keep my students. His/her classes meet right after mine. I hear his/her students encouraging mine to leave my class.

[anywho]

My first semester at my current school, I had fewer students enrolling in my course. The next semester, after course evaluations had been filled out, I had established a reputation as a good teacher, and my classes had waitlists. The results of student evals are available to all students to review, and they use these to choose faculty. New people don't have any reviews yet, so they get fewer students enrolling.

I'd guess that once you've been there for a semester this won't be a problem anymore.