I remember the Globe had an article roughly a month ago about how adjunct
and part-time professors in the U.S. in general have a hard time making
ends meet.
I do hope this job ends up being filled by somebody who makes a LOT more
$$ using perl in her or his other jobs. *wry grin*
-Daniel
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> --- Forwarded message from James Peregrino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---
>
> Looking for 1 (possibly 2) teaching assistants to join a crew of 3
> others for the Harvard Extension School course "Web Programming in
> Perl". We estimate 100+ students this year.
>
> You should feel confident in Perl and CGI programming, with
> experience in DBI and/or LWP. The course platform is Apache and
> MySQL on Solaris. Student population runs from high school to late
> 60's with experience of an introductory programming course to
> professional programmers. Most come from a Win32 background.
>
> Excellent opportunity to get teaching experience and meet people.
>
> Course runs for 14 weekly lectures starting January 30 - May 8th.
>
> You would commit to:
> A) a weekly hour-long section meeting at Harvard (Harvard
> Yard, Cambridge). No free parking :-(
> B) At least 1 hour per week to hold "virtual office hours".
> C) Answer student email
> D) Grade 6 homework assignments (1 every 2 weeks) and 1 final project.
> E) Attend some of my lectures to get a feel of the course.
>
> Total hourly commitment about 15-20 hours/week. (there's lots of student email)
>
> Pay is approximately $2,000.
>
> Syllabus is at http://elmo.dce.harvard.edu:2121/about.shtml
> Harvard Extension School is at http://www.extension.harvard.edu
>
> Contact James Peregrino at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> -- James Peregrino - http://lab.dce.harvard.edu/~peregrin/business-card.html
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
