It doesn’t seem that long ago that teaching college students and secondary students was a pretty solid career choice for intellectuals with earned graduate degrees, a Ph.D. or masters degree, but circumstances have forced that particular analysis to change in a radical fashion. After all, if a living, a decent living, cannot be made by being an educator and by making the effort to earn a graduate degree, then a serious reevaluation of an academic career is in order. Quite possibly, the only accurate analysis of post-secondary academic education today must first start with the presence of a mature distance education technology. As many traditional adjunct college faculty members have no doubt noticed there is a proliferation of online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs. Further the college and university students today actually want to enroll in an online degree program that will allow them to earn an accredited online accounting degree, an online special education degree or a library science degree online from their laptop computers at home or at work. The academic administrators desperate for an alternative to the extremely expensive physical college and university classroom are just as eager to adopt as quickly as possible the distance education technology that allows them to provide their student bodies, which are expanding in size with each passing semester, online college courses that are much less expensive to distribute and maintain.
All of this means that an intellectual with a graduate degree can start applying for online adjunct teaching positions at literally thousands of accredited distance learning universities and, of course, the accredited distance learning college. As one academic career path fades into the sunset, so to speak, a new academic career path opens up as a result of the availability of online college degree programs. As more and more financial pressure is put on the budgets designated for postsecondary academic institutions, the more online college courses and online degree programs will appear on the Internet. The academic wishing to earn a decent living would be well advised to learn how a personal computer accessing the Internet and, therefore, the over five thousand community colleges, state universities, for profit colleges, technical schools and or four-year colleges can generate multiple online adjunct income streams that can be collected every month of the calendar year.
Possibly the best search strategy for finding online degree programs that need academically qualified and technically proficient online adjunct instructors is to go to the websites of the schools. On the first page of each school’s website is a link that will lead the prospective online adjunct instructor to the faculty application section. What will be required from the online college professor in order to acquire an online teaching portfolio populated with six to twelve online college classes is a rotational application process. This online faculty position application process means submitting academic credentials and evidence of classroom experience to the same post-secondary academic institution until the invitation to attend the mandatory training required of every new online adjunct instructor is received by the academic. Simply by making enough applications for online faculty positions with an individual accredited distance learning college, the prospective online adjunct instructor will eventually began teaching online and enjoying a new academic career.
