Start Developing Online Adjunct Income Now

Educators with a graduate degree, a Ph.D. or master’s degree, trying to stay ahead of the public school layoffs at the secondary level of the academy and traditional adjunct college faculty members trying to figure out how to pay the rent and eat on the low pay for the few classes available to teach on a traditional college or university campus should start developing online adjunct income now. The sooner a prospective online adjunct instructor begins the application process with online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs the sooner the online teaching paychecks will show up. Academic administrators are really up against it these days since they must decide whether to pay faculty members or spend what few budget funds are available on maintaining the physical plant known as the college or university campus. Of course, it is much easier to shortchange the teachers since the amount of investment in the classrooms and other structures is much greater than it is in the traditional adjunct college teachers and the investment in the physical infrastructure must be protected at all costs, including laying off the teachers or continuing to pay them poverty wages. This means that it is entirely up to the individual with the graduate degree to figure out how to actually earn a living by entirely replacing a lost income from teaching or supplement an insufficient income by teaching online for online bachelor degree programs and online master’s degree programs.

It is of paramount importance for any prospective online adjunct instructor to make as many applications to as many online college degree programs as possible each day. While this may seem overwhelming for the traditional academic used to only a few schools within driving distance it is an action that is not only possible but imminently smart when contemplating online adjunct instructor positions as a new career path. The reasons for this are twofold: the competition for available online college faculty positions is growing with each layoff that occurs at the secondary level and the public post-secondary academic institutions are acting less quickly than the for-profit colleges to deploy online accredited degree programs. On the other hand, the public community colleges and state universities are adding new online degrees such as the associate degree in business administration online, the human resources degree online and registered nursing degree online every semester.

Given these circumstances the correct approach to securing a portfolio of online adjunct positions is to go directly to the individual schools’ website and locate the employment link on the front page. This link will lead to the faculty application page, which will also present a great deal of information about the various accredited university degrees offered by the schools. Of course, the more information the online adjunct instructor with designs on an online teaching career has when making the applications the better the chance are that the application will be successful. In the end, the growth of distance education at public post-secondary schools is a very positive sign for educators seeking an alternative to underemployment or unemployment.