Educators are starting to wake up to the budget cuts at traditional academic institutions. Colleges and universities are disposing of college teachers at an alarming rate. Some four-year state colleges are instituting twenty five percent budget cuts that will result in the dismissal of all part-time instructors. However, on the positive side of all this doom and gloom are the benefits of distance education technology producing online college teaching jobs. The emergence and acceptance of online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs are making the online adjunct instructor the future of post-secondary education. That is a very bold statement on its face, but it is becoming more apparent every day that higher education simply will not support tenure-track professors and the many benefits afforded them and it is even more apparent that tenured faculty members are less attractive every day due to the long-tem costs they represent to the college administration.
As the schools are less able to afford to hire full time faculty members, the more important individuals with graduate degrees and the technical ability to successfully navigate an online degree program and efficiently accomplish all the teaching tasks required by online college courses will become to them because the student populations will not go down over that time. As a result of ravaged traditional faculty positions, the schools will be happy to work with the online adjunct instructor who has learned the all important lesson of how to transform into an academic entrepreneur.
As the academic entrepreneur demonstrates the ability to teach eight to ten online college courses one time and learns that those academic coordination skills, time management and technical expertise, are at a premium due to the relatively small number of educators with them, the more efficient the negotiations with the online college degree programs will become over time. The upshot of informed interaction with schools that offer their students the chance to earn an online business management degree, a communications degree or an online finance degree is the ability to teach at any geographic location, multiple income streams arriving as often as once a week and a concrete sense of control over one’s economic future.
In the past, traditional college adjunct were trapped, so to speak, in one geographic area because they had to be able to reach the next physical college campus by driving a personal vehicle. If the college adjunct lived in a less populated part of the country it was only possible to teach college students for one or two community colleges or state-colleges. Today, the emerging system of online college programs combined with inexpensive computers capable of wireless access of the Internet is developing an incredible career path for individuals with graduate degrees and a clear idea of how to take advantage of online degree programs as independent online adjunct instructors.
The best way to start searching for online adjunct employment opportunities is to visit the websites of the over five thousand technical schools, community colleges, state colleges and for profit schools and follow the link on the front page to the faculty application portal.
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