College instructors currently teaching in a traditional academic setting are interested in distance education technology and how they can secure online adjunct jobs with online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs. However, the search for online adjunct faculty positions can be frustrating because it requires a good deal of old fashioned patience to find them. Basically, the best search strategy is, as always, the direct one. Once the academic credentials, unofficial graduate transcripts, resume, cover letter and three letters of reference, have been gathered and scanned into a document format that can be read on any computer, it is necessary to organize a disciplined, rotational application process. There are over five thousand technical schools, community colleges, state colleges, four-year universities and for profit schools that confer a post-secondary academic degree.
Every one of the schools has a website now. On each school’s website is a link that will take the prospective online adjunct instructor to the section of the website that permits the submission of academic credentials. It is important to know that the link on the front page of each school’s website that takes the visitor to the faculty employment section may have different names. In some instances it may be named faculty employment, academic careers or human resources. Regardless of the name of the link, it will always wind up in the same place. Another important thing to know is that the faculty employment portal is not always designed the same for each college or university. In some cases, applying to teach online may be as easy and quick as sending an e-mail to the Human Resources department. In other cases, the prospective online teacher is required to sign up for a data base that permits editing of the applications materials.
Obviously, it will take some time to acclimate oneself to this process and to develop an application rhythm, so to speak, that will yield the desired result in terms of multiple online adjunct faculty positions. Further, as any intellectual know from prior and current intellectual exercises, it takes time to develop an instinct about what is important to respond to and what can be left for another time. In that regard, it is vitally important to keep clear records of when an application to teach students earning a health administration degree online, an online pharmacy degree or an online project management degree is made to an individual online degree program. The reason this is important is that many traditional colleges and universities are only now deploying online college courses for their students in any meaningful amount. The hesitation these academic institutions deciding to implement online college degree programs causes them to have a less than efficient application acceptance process.
The best method is to note the date of the application to an online degree program in a spreadsheet, and if a response has not been received in thirty day, repeat the application process. There really is no danger of applying too many times to a particular college or university. Many times prospective online adjunct instructors ask how many times they should apply to a particular school, and the answer is as many times as it takes to receive an invitation to teach online college classes.
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