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I tried. Programming classes in my CC were SO bad it made me want to help.

They wanted someone with a PhD and it paid 38k… non starter. The kind of PhD that’s willing to take that in a field like computer science is a very unique kind of person that doesn’t have better opportunities for whatever reason.

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Might also be someone who already had a career and wanted to do some teaching at the end of it

Might be, but still limits your pool of candidates so much that you’ll have to go with the first person that shows up.

The right candidate for this kind of job is unlikely to be motivated solely by money, so the fist person that shows up may not be that bad?

At the CC system I went to, it was fairly common for underpaid associate professors at nearby community colleges to teach some of their usual university courses at the community colleges for extra income. It's still a lot of work for them, but I think when you teach a familiar course at an additional school, you can save a lot of prep work so it's a little bit more like teaching another section of the same course than taking on a whole new one.

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