It is increasingly important for adjunct college instructor to consider the issue of mobility when evaluating their academic career prospects. In some cases now, state budgets are drastically cutting back the funds to state colleges and universities, which means that he faculty, adjunct or tenured, will experience a decrease in pay, if not outright layoffs and firings. Granted, the traditional academic model does not incorporate the possibility of perpetually being able to move at a moment’s notice once the teaching has begin in earnest, but the post-secondary academic labor model is changing at a very rapid speed and it is changing as a result of the wholesale implementation of distance education technology. The reason colleges, universities and community colleges are offering a growing number of online college courses, online bachelor degree programs and online master’s degree programs is that they realize the cost of maintaining and expanding the physical plants known as campuses is unsupportable in these hard economic times. Make no mistake about it if teaching college or university students is the career choice: teaching online for multiple online business degree programs, online law degree programs and online nursing degree programs, to name but three disciplines, is the future of post-secondary academic instruction.
However, the issue of mobility for an online adjunct instructor is somewhat more complex and, ultimately, much more beneficial to the adjunct college teacher than the simple of idea of moving from one physical in campus in one state or city to another campus in another geographic location. Teaching online is something that can be successfully accomplished from any geographic location that provides access to the Internet. More to the point, all that is needed to enter the online college courses in the online degree programs is an inexpensive laptop computer. So, an adept online adjunct instructor can teach college and university students enrolled in online college degree program leading to an online military degree, an online registered nurse degree or an online mathematics degree.
As more post-secondary institutions implement online degree programs in an effort to stay abreast of budget cuts from funding sources above them the more need these institutions will have for online teachers to fill the online faculty positions. This need for technically and academically qualified individuals with computer skills and earned graduate degrees, a master’s degree or Ph.D., allows college instructors to earn a nice living by generating online adjunct income streams throughout the year. Since all of the online teaching tasks are located on the Internet, it is completely unnecessary to be in one particular location when teaching the class. This circumstance certainly give new meaning to the idea of academic mobility, and the reality that multiple paychecks for various online college degree programs can be earned from practically any town, city or country on the globe creates a new economic paradigm for academics.
The best search strategy for locating online adjunct jobs is to visit the websites of the thousands of state-colleges, four-year universities, community colleges, technical schools and for-profit colleges that now offer their college students some form of distance education. Within each school’s site is a faculty application section. This section is specifically designed to allow the easy submission of the required academic credentials needed to be considered for a variety of online professor positions. While it may take some time to receive a positive response from an individual school, the effort to make a dozen applications for online faculty positions will certainly pay off in the end with increased mobility and larger paychecks.
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