City Vision Online Adjunct Faculty Application

Summary of Online Adjunct Faculty Expectations

It is expected that an online faculty member will model a personal commitment to the goals and values of City Vision University, engage in an active commitment to and experience of personal spiritual formation within a biblically-informed Christian worldview, and follow lesson plans developed for the course they are facilitating.

City Vision offers five eight-week terms. While time required by adjuncts varies by course, typically most courses will require 10-15 hours per week per course (about 1 hour per week per student).  Most often we have faculty start with a trial term where they teach 2-6 students while they get familiar with our students, technology, processes and culture. This allows both the adjunct faculty and City Vision to assess whether there is a fit.

For full details of expectations, please read our Adjunct Faculty Contract.

Requirements

• Must be a Christian actively attending a church who is able to support City Vision’s statement of faith.
• Minimum earned Master’s level degree or equivalent in area of teaching (doctorate/terminal degree for teaching Master’s courses)
• Official transcript(s) required for all relevant degrees and/or licenses from an institution accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or accreditation in your home country recognized in the U.S.
• Online teaching experience is strongly preferred
• Relevant practitioner experience in relevant industry/ministry strongly preferred
• Ability to pass background check or two non-relative references (one faith-related, one academic) if requested.

Compensation

• Pay
  • Faculty with Master’s Degrees: $75 per student
  • Faculty with Doctoral Degrees (regular courses): $100/student 
  • Faculty with Doctorates (Addiction Counseling, Fundraising and Accounting courses): $125/student (guaranteed minimum of 6 students).  This increased pay is due to increased market demand.
  • Additional Pay: Faculty receive additional pay for completing our Faculty 101 onboarding course as required in their first term and for serving as lead faculty.
  • Number of Students: Compensation will be an honorarium to be paid at the conclusion of the course and upon receipt of final grades for each student who completes at least 5 weeks of the class. Faculty will be paid for a minimum of 6 students per course. This minimum excludes any course that is offered every term (Mentored Ministry, Prior Learning, Practicum, Job Search, etc.). If faculty are paid for additional “students” for completing faculty 101 or serving as lead faculty, those will count toward the 6 student minimum.
• Tuition Scholarship. We provide a tuition scholarship to faculty members and their immediate family, so courses are only $550/course (undergraduate and graduate).

Senior Faculty and Academic Leadership Positions

Because our mission and values are very unique, City Vision University primarily follows a leadership development plan where we develop leaders internally to senior faculty and academic leadership positions as shown in the diagram below. Those with more senior academic experience may potentially go through this process more quickly than others, but it is still needed for acculturation. Senior faculty and academic leadership positions require: 1) senior level of competency in the roles shown below, 2) cross-cultural competency and fluency needed to equip leaders serving the poor and addicted.