Laugh at the Traditional College Campus with Online Adjunct Faculty Positions

Teaching on an adjunct basis for a traditional college or university is a dicey business these days. As post-secondary budgets for college faculty members are stripped to the bone in order to divert the remaining funds to administrative salaries and the maintenance of the physical infrastructure, many adjunct instructors are being dismissed permanently and their classes given to full-time teachers who are told to pick up the teaching slack or join the adjunct instructors on the bread lines. Fortunately, help is on the way for college teachers working on an adjunct basis. That help is in the form of distance education technology, and those who have an earned graduate degree and can master the required technical and time management skills can sit at a sidewalk café in Paris, France and laugh at the traditional college campus with online adjunct faculty positions.

The for-profit colleges have amply demonstrated that online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs are not only very cost effective when compared with the upwardly spiraling expense of maintaining large collections of aging, energy-inefficient building surrounded by asphalt parking lots that must be re-paved at considerable expense every two years or so, but that online college degree programs are highly popular with non-traditional students with little time or energy to drive a personal vehicle to a remote traditional college campus and sit in an unpainted physical classroom when they could be at hole using their personal computers to access online college classes whenever their busy schedules permit them to log onto the Internet.

This same convenience offered by online degree programs can be accessed by online adjunct instructors. It would be possible for an online adjunct instructor with first-rate time management skills and very well developed digital navigation skills to teach ten online college classes every day from the lobby of a boutique hotel in the south of France, or from the balcony of a beachfront condo on the coast of southern California or from the front porch of a rustic cabin high in the mountains. All that is required in terms of tools is an earned graduate degree and a laptop computer with Internet access. Of course, there are many elements that go along with the actual coordination of these classes, and there is the all important understanding of the changing academic labor force that is in play today, but the point is that it can be done and is being done by some college instructors who have figured out how to search for online college courses to teach.

The best way to find online adjunct jobs is to go directly to the websites of the thousands of community colleges, technical schools, state colleges, four-year universities and for-profit schools. Every school has a website now and on that website’s first page is link that will take the prospective online adjunct instructor to a faculty portal set up to accept academic credentials. It will be necessary to make many applications for online adjunct faculty positions because earning a living an online adjunct college instructor is really about marketing a skill set instead of simply looking for a job.