Go After Online Adjunct Faculty Positions

Now is the moment for anyone who is unemployed and has an earned master’s degree or a Ph.D. in a core area of academic study to go after online adjunct faculty positions. The academic job market for tenure-track positions is bleak and will become bleaker as time passes, so put on your big professor shoes and start applying to every online bachelor degree program out there. Sure, what you have heard about online teaching as an adjunct is pretty dull, but have you given much thought to how dull it is to not be able to buy a decent pair of shoes? Sure, teaching multiple classes of Developmental Composition full of new and returning college students from a computer isn’t really what you had in mind, but is not being able to have a nice place to live what you had in mind when you spent all that time, money and effort to earn your graduate degree?

The faculty model, which means the academic labor model, in post-secondary academic institutions, meaning community colleges, state colleges and state universities, has changed over the last decade. If you teach for a traditional school with physical classrooms and campuses, you have probably noticed that there are more and more AA degree online courses, more online master degree program courses and more online nursing degree courses being offered to students every day. Of course, the beauty of being an one of the growing numbers of online adjunct instructors is that one take advantage of the students’ eagerness to take online college classes in order to earn their online bachelor degree.

The way to earn a real living as an online adjunct instructor is to apply for many, many online adjunct instructor positions at many, many online education degree programs. It is simple enough to find these online universities by simply using a search engine to look up the names of all the post-secondary institutions. Once you have found the schools web site, simply locate the faculty employment page and make your application for the online adjunct employment opportunities offered by the schools. You can rest assured that there will be more and more online college classes needing a qualified instructor in the days and years ahead.

The academic landscape is changing rapidly as the technology required to offer new and returning college students a chance to begin earning or finish earning their degrees matures to a degree that make it very cost effective for schools to put their faculty into the online college courses. There is no reason that anyone who possesses an earned graduate degree, and this means current college adjuncts as well as corporate employees recently unemployed as a result of the economic downdraft, should not begin applying for online adjunct jobs in order to pay the bills and have some sort of decent income.

In the end, the important aspect of pursuing online adjunct employment is that it can be accomplished from a computer with an Internet connection—from locating the school, making an application, going through training and being placed in a classroom. Further, it is quite acceptable to teach for multiple online programs and hold multiple online adjunct faculty positions with those schools. This method of earning a living by online teaching is a valid one, and in this day and age, a valid way of actually earning a living is nothing to sneer at by any means.