Cash In On Online Adjunct Faculty Positions

If you read the rather long list of blogs and websites that are authored by college adjuncts there is every reason not to believe you can cash in on online adjunct faculty positions. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, there is an actual shortage of qualified online adjunct to teach the many online college courses being offered by post secondary institutions offering online bachelor degrees and online masters degrees. All too often, adjunct fail to understand that post-secondary education is a business. The college and university administrators understand that it is a business, and it is that understanding that gives them insight as to how to exploit college adjuncts. It is high time anyone with a graduate degree that wants to teach online college classes or is already teaching in the traditional college classroom start thinking like an academic entrepreneur.

Academic entrepreneurs can teach for multiple online masters degree programs and earn multiple paychecks without actually going to a physical campus. How is this possible? The answer is to teach as an online adjunct from your computer. It’s really that simple when all is said and done. It is possible today to earn a living by finding and applying for multiple online adjunct teaching positions, but it does take some serious effort and no little determination to find the positions, successfully complete the training and start teaching online college students.

Granted, it is vitally important to fine tune or completely readjust one’s view of the academy in order to take advantage of the current situation, but once that is accomplished it is fairly easy to see the number of online adjunct faculty positions that need a teacher to teach online. Here is the problem the academy has that will permit you, the college adjunct wanting to teach online and earn a decent living from almost anywhere on the planet. In order for the community colleges, state-funded colleges and universities and the for-profit schools to award their students federal financial aid, the schools must have a faculty that can pass the requirements of the various accreditation boards. Now, it is plain that the accreditation boards don’t give a hoot if the individual adjuncts are grossly underpaid, but those same boards do care that the faculty, adjunct or online adjunct, possess an earned graduate degree before being placed in a classroom. This circumstance is very important to the various schools, so it is to their advantage to hire as many online adjuncts for as many online adjunct faculty positions as possible. After all, during economic downturns, such as the one going on now, the student populations skyrocket.

There can be argument that taken individually each school will only pay a minimal amount for an online adjunct to teach each online college course, but since it possible to teach for multiple schools online the total monthly income can be much higher that what it would be if the college teacher were limited by physical geography. These are all good reasons to immediately start applying for online adjunct faculty positions and earn a decent living.