Many adjunct college instructors are having a very hard time making ends meet these days because faculty budgets are being cut right to the bone in order to save the tenured faculty members and college administrators the trouble of having to hire legal counsel to defend their lucrative contracts. Of course, the irony is that without the help of adjunct instructors in the traditional college classrooms the tenured faculty and the administrators would be teaching the students themselves, but instead of causing dismay this irony should motive you to become an online adjunct instructor for multiple online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs.
An individual with an earned graduate degree or a person willing to earn a masters degree by enrolling in and graduating from an online master’s degree program can turn the traditional college adjunct system on its ear by understanding that being an online adjunct instructor is more like being an academic entrepreneur than being a mere academic employee subject to the whims of those who are only interested in taking economic advantage of the cheap intellectual labor represented by the army of low-paid, easily dismissed college instructors teaching on an adjunct basis at traditional post-secondary academic institutions.
The best way to learn about the opportunities available for an online adjunct instructor is to start visiting the websites of the over five thousand technical schools, community colleges, state colleges, four-year universities and for profits schools. On the front page of the school’s websites is a link that will take the prospective online college instructor to the faculty application portal. Once there, it will be fairly easy to determine if the college or university is offering its students the chance to earn an electrical engineering bachelor degree online, an online business management degree or an online bachelor degree in accounting. The faculty application portal is specifically designed to accept the academic credentials of a person seeking to teach online college classes for the school’s online college degree programs.
It is possible for an alert, aggressive online adjunct instructor to manage the teaching tasks and administrative duties for eight to ten online college courses at once. Naturally, there needs to be a strong sense of time management in place in order to coordinate the objectives of the online classes and it is of vital importance to employ razor-sharp digital navigational skills in order to move in and out of the various online degree program efficiently, but if those skills can be mastered a very healthy income can be earned by an online adjunct instructor.
The true motivation for pursuing online teaching as an online adjunct instructor is the freedom it provides the person with an earned graduate degree. As an independent academic contractor or academic entrepreneur, the online adjunct instructor can choose to teach for any many online degree programs or decline to work for as many or as few online college degree programs as dictated by his or her own economic need. Further, since all accredited online college degree programs are on the Internet, the online college teacher has the ability to live where he or she wants at any given time and an inexpensive computer is the primary physical tool. It is these elements that can motivate you to become an online adjunct instructor.
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