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You can often teach part-time at a community college without a
phd and sometimes without a masters. Depends on need.
Definitely cannot be full-time faculty without it though.

On 4/24/16, mark wrote:
> My guess is that the masters degree you will earn will be a
> Masters of Education focused on K-12 teaching, so it won't
get
> you any closer to teaching community college. You might like
> teaching high school though. I wish you luck with TFA and
hope
> you find what you're looking for.
>
> On 4/24/16, tangelo wrote:
>> Great advice, thanks so much for your thoughtful answer. I
>> was never really gunning fof full-time in a CC. In fact, I
>> prefer part-time. However, I'm not sure I have the patience
>> for a phd, so I think the plan is the masters through TFA,
>> while getting paid to teach HS for two years on their
>> contract. Then, we'll see where I go from there. Thanks
>> again!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/24/16, nah wrote:
>>> Most community college teachers are part time and don't
>>> make very much money. They get almost nothing in benefits
>>> when they're part time and get paid about $1000 per
>> class.
>>> My cousin's husband has a Phd in Economics and spent
>> three
>>> years trying to get a job as a full time college teacher.
>>> He applied to every position in the US at both community
>>> colleges and full universities. Literally, if there was
>> an
>>> econ teaching job at a college in the US, he applied. He
>>> probably applied to multiple colleges in every state,
>>> including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and in Canada.
>>>
>>> Luckily he was able to get a job in the private sector
>>> with his economics degree while he searched for a
>> teaching
>>> job, and he did the part time college teaching thing
>>> online. Economists actually make good money in the
>> private
>>> sector, so he wasn't hurting for money, but he would have
>>> had a hard time of it if he had a Phd in History or
>>> English. Anyways, they lived in California, and he
>> finally
>>> got a full time professor's job at a community college in
>>> upstate New York. They moved there last fall.
>>>
>>> I guess my point is that teaching full time in college is
>>> a very hard field to get into. You're not going to get a
>>> job at the community college near your home and if you're
>>> serious about it, you will need be ready to move, maybe
>> to
>>> the middle of nowhere. My cousin was used to living in
>> the
>>> Bay Area, and now they live in a frozen rural town, so
>>> they made some sacrifices for his career. You're probably
>>> better off staying with teaching high school.

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