• WELCOME TO A POTENTIAL NEW FUTURE! 

    If you are reading this, you might be interested in how to become a university instructor...or at least wondering what teaching in a college or university looks like?

    This site is a repository of information for community partners and industry experts to learn more about the role of educators in a university setting.  For example, did you know that university instructors...

    • do not necessarily require PhDs or Masters degrees even though it often states that on the job posting?
    • have access to full course content from previous classes and do not have to start from scratch or reinvent wheels?
    • have academic freedom or leeway to teach a course in a variety of ways that you feel will best help the learner?
    • can make approximately 60-80$ per hour on average at entry level?
    • have access to a myriad of professional development to improve teaching and learning strategies that help your students succeed?
    • can have flexible teaching schedules that allow for part time contracts that work around other work schedules?
    • have pathways for support towards getting hired full time, tenured and promoted?

    This site is focused on rural and remote settings within TRU's catchment (Williams Lake, Barriere, Clearwater, Lillooet, Lytton, Ashcroft and 100 Mile) so recruiting and retaining instructors can be particularly difficult.  This site is meant to help community members navigate the university/college environment and make your steps towards applying and maintaining a university contract a positive and successful experience!

    Let's get started on what this thing called university teaching really looks like!

      • Land Acknowledgement

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        This project work was completed with permission from Thompson Rivers University, whose campuses are on the ancestral lands of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops campus) and the T’exelc (Williams Lake campus) within Secwepemcúl̓ecw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc. The region TRU serves also extends into the territories of the St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Nuxalk, Tŝilhqot'in, Dakelh, and Syilx peoples.

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