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[hesitant]

Re: the OP's follow-up question about CCs hiring R1-types...

In your cover letter, you should absolutely draw attention to your experience with ESL and the other populations you described. That it was "Eurpoean" makes no difference in my mind.

Present yourself as someone who can make material accessible without watering down said material.

Also, check out this older thread about getting adjunct jobs via email:

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,55030.0.html

Since you don't have local "connections," this should be a part of your overall strategy.

Thanks for the useful tips! I guess I have been avoiding the "cold sale" approach, but  I will do it -- emailing chairs in departments that might hire adjuncts makes sense; the broader the net you cast, I guess, the better.

[hesitant]

A few years ago, I was in a similar situation: humanities, expensive East Coast city, still a grad student.  I received $2600.  It is still painful to calculate what the hourly wage worked out to be... 
 

Actually, I just found out that another college -- not the one that requires the numbers in the cover letter -- has the pay as part of their announcement : $846.00 Per Credit, so assume that would come to 2,538 per 3 unit course. (both offer the same writing/lit courses I am applying to teach.) Yepp, you are so right!

[jwormold]

A few years ago, I was in a similar situation: humanities, expensive East Coast city, still a grad student.  I received $2600.  It is still painful to calculate what the hourly wage worked out to be... 
 

Actually, I just found out that another college -- not the one that requires the numbers in the cover letter -- has the pay as part of their announcement : $846.00 Per Credit, so assume that would come to 2,538 per 3 unit course. (both offer the same writing/lit courses I am applying to teach.) Yepp, you are so right!

Wow, I was right on the money!

It's pathetic, really, since I got that much FIVE years ago.  Um, there's been quite a bit of increase in the cost of living since then.  Which is why I scoff at the very thought that I should take pay cut to help my University out of its current budget crisis.  Dudes, you've been screwing us by not giving raises, which amounts to a pay cut after inflation, all along. 

<Yeah, I'm angry and hoping for some good, old-fashioned class warfare!>

[hesitant]

A few years ago, I was in a similar situation: humanities, expensive East Coast city, still a grad student.  I received $2600.  It is still painful to calculate what the hourly wage worked out to be... 
 

Actually, I just found out that another college -- not the one that requires the numbers in the cover letter -- has the pay as part of their announcement : $846.00 Per Credit, so assume that would come to 2,538 per 3 unit course. (both offer the same writing/lit courses I am applying to teach.) Yepp, you are so right!

Wow, I was right on the money!

It's pathetic, really, since I got that much FIVE years ago.  Um, there's been quite a bit of increase in the cost of living since then.  Which is why I scoff at the very thought that I should take pay cut to help my University out of its current budget crisis.  Dudes, you've been screwing us by not giving raises, which amounts to a pay cut after inflation, all along. 

<Yeah, I'm angry and hoping for some good, old-fashioned class warfare!>

I hear you! With the market being what it is, I am really in no position to be a chooser, but this is exactly why I am really riled up by the requirement to put adjunct pay expectations in the  cover letter. They are getting really "efficient" aren't they? So, with everything else being equal they are going to hire the person who has specified the lowest pay?! And all of that efficiently and expediently taken care of in the very first round of the search! Agghh! (OK, I did try, very hard at that,  not to turn my thread into a rant -- but here, I said it!)