Online Adjunct Faculty Win Every Time

The unfortunate academic news just keeps coming and many college teachers, especially those that teach on an adjunct basis, are extremely worried about retaining their college and university classes at the traditional campuses. The solution to this distress set of circumstances is to become part of an online adjunct faculty as soon as possible. The reality of the academic labor market is that distance education technology is being used to replace the physical college and university classroom. The reason this is happening is because academic administrators can’t continue spending diminishing budgetary funds on expensive physical plants, and are instead developing as many inexpensive online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs as possible every semester. This proliferation of online college courses is a genuine boon for individual with earned graduate degrees that want to teach at the post-secondary level for a career.

As state budgets are reduced by the current economic crisis, the faculty budgets at state colleges, universities and community colleges are in a real tailspin, so the adjunct instructors on the traditional are less likely to be paid enough to teach an individual class to qualify as an actual living wage. The antidote to this is to learn enough about the functions of a personal computer to access the internet and the online college degree programs that are on it. Further, it is necessary to develop a rotational application process that sends out dozens and hundreds of applications for online faculty positions every day. These two elements, mastery of a personal computer and a continuous application procedure, can result in multiple online adjunct income streams from online accounting schools, online business schools and online criminal justice schools all year long.

The growth of online degree programs is driven by the enthusiasm new and returning college and university students express for the chance to earn a degree online from their electronic devices, which do not require them to travel in a personal vehicle to a remote campus location at difficult hours, and the cost-efficiency of delivering post-secondary instruction on the Internet instead of in a physical building that requires heating and cooling all the year around. At the same time, distance education is a great opportunity for any person willing to earn a master’s degree or Ph.D. and learn the dynamic of being an academic entrepreneur instead of a state employee stuck in a geographic location. The primary benefit of teaching online is that it is not required for an online adjunct instructor to live near the college or university campus in order to appear in the online classroom every time it meets during the duration of the class.

Additionally, the online college classes in the online degree programs are usually much shorter in terms of the numbers of weeks than the traditional sixteen-week semester. Often, an online course will only last six to eight weeks long. This means it will be possible for an online adjunct professor to teach many more online college courses over the course of twelve months, and as a result the income from these additional classes will be much greater each month. Overall, teaching online is well worth the effort required to master the use of the Internet and the time it takes to access the various online university programs and make applications for a position in the online adjunct faculty.