Normally, adjunct college faculty members spend an inordinate amount of time and energy helping college and university students get back on their academic feet at during the first year of attending college. However, today the situation works in reverse, or rather it can work in reverse if the right perception of post-secondary education is grasped by the academic with a graduate degree. Distance education technology is making available the online bachelor degree program and the online master degree program at unprecedented levels because it is much easier to distribute college level instruction from a computer server that it is from inside of a physical college or university classroom. As practically any adjunct college instructor teaching in a physical classroom on a traditional university or college campus can testify, there is really no hope for earning a decent living on what the academic administrators are willing to pay the adjunct college professors to teach an individual college course. So, the academic with a Ph.D. or masters degree that does want to pay the rent from teaching college and university students should begin to view college and university students as the market for the academic and technical skills necessary to teach online for a variety of online college degree programs. In this way the students earning, for example, a bachelors degree online, can help an aggressive online adjunct instructor with half a dozen online college courses in online teaching portfolio actually generate enough online adjunct income streams to qualify as a real living. In this way it is actually the students that are helping the college teachers back on their financial feet because today’s college and university students are eager to enroll in online college courses that lead to an online master in teaching, an online bachelor of nursing degree or a registered nursing degree online. What is more, the student populations of community colleges, state colleges and more universities are ballooning beyond the administrators’ abilities to meet their educational needs even with online degree programs.
It is estimated that currently seventy percent of the post-secondary student population still does not have access to the online college courses they want to enroll in and attend every semester because of the bureaucratic hesitancy inherent in academic institutions funded by the state. Granted, the for-profit colleges are humming along quite nicely now because they recognized the efficiency of distance education technology a decade ago, and they are primary markets for the prospective online adjunct instructor wishing to develop an online teaching schedule containing multiple online college courses. The point, however, of this shortfall in available online college degree programs is that there will be plenty of college and university teaching work to be had if the online adjunct instructor makes a commitment to change directions and transition out of all the physical college and university classroom and into multiple online degree programs. Ultimately, the future of post-secondary education belongs to the academics addressing it in forthright, determined and focused manner and going after the online college courses that still do not have online instructors teaching them. The best place to start applying for online faculty positions is to visit the websites of community colleges, state colleges, for-profit colleges, technical schools and four-year universities, locate the link on the first page that leads to the faculty application section and start submitting applications for online adjunct instructor positions on a daily basis.
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