Since today’s college students and university students are so familiar with their personal computers enrolling in an online degree program seems quite natural, there is no reason that any academic seeking employment should not have an online teaching schedule populated with at least eight online college courses generating multiple online adjunct income streams every month of the year. This may seem like a very bold assertion but it is vitally important that educators with earned graduate degrees, a Ph.D. or masters degree, realize that continuing to teach on a traditional college, community college or university campus will never provide enough income to afford a decent lifestyle. The simple truth of the matter is that the academic administrators have learned that there are so many academically qualified adjunct college instructors willing to teach in the post-secondary classroom for next to nothing in pay that they will never increase the amount they offer to teach the individual college course for the traditional sixteen week semester. In all honestly, there is no motivation at all for these academic administrators to do anything other than what they are doing right now in so far as it concerns the adjunct college faculty and how much they are willing to pay that faculty for the intellectual work of delivering educational instruction. However, distance education technology is creating a new academic labor paradigm that does motivate academic administrators to hire educators with the appropriate academic credentials and a moderate level of technical skill to teach the online college courses that lead to, for example, the bachelor online degree. The reason this change is taking place is simply because the demand on the part of college and university students for additional online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs is extremely elevated at this time. College students and university students understand it is much preferable to enroll in online degree programs and participate in online college courses from their computers instead of having to drive a vehicle to a remote, traditional campus and then after class drive the vehicle back to work or home. This means that online college degree programs that lead to the bachelor online degree actually represent employment opportunities for academics needing to earn a decent living.
The best way for an academic with a graduate degree to go about acquiring an online teaching schedule is to visit the websites of the thousands of community colleges, state universities, for your colleges and technical schools that offer online college courses to their student populations. Of course, given the breadth of distribution of distance education technology this means that every one of the thousands of post-secondary academic institutions is a potential employer of the aggressive online adjunct instructor who learns how to make multiple applications for online faculty positions. Prospective online adjunct instructors should make no mistake in thinking that acquiring a full-time online teaching schedule will happen quickly since it may take as long as a year for an individual school to reply to an application by an academic seeking multiple online adjunct faculty positions. This delay should be viewed not as a comment on qualifications of the applicants, but rather the natural product of bureaucratic hesitancy inherent in publicly funded post-secondary schools. Eventually, the focused, determined online adjunct instructor will be able to locate enough online college courses to teach to be able to earn what will be considered a full-time income.
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