| It is one thing to start searching for online bachelor | | | | An aggressive online adjunct instructor, however, |
| degree programs for which to teach, but it is entirely | | | | with the right perspective of the developing |
| another thing to have a goal oriented plan for finding | | | | academic landscape, including the deployment of |
| online faculty jobs. The best goal imaginable now is to | | | | distance education technology at a more rapid pace, |
| have the ability to market an academic and technical | | | | and a strong sense of time management plus |
| skill set to thousands of post-secondary academic | | | | well-developed digital navigation skills can actually turn |
| institutions in desperate need of the skill set. As any | | | | the post-secondary to his or her advantage. It is |
| traditional college adjunct instructor can verify the | | | | important to understand that since all online |
| budget cuts now taking place at physical college | | | | classroom activity such as interaction with students |
| campuses are simply horrifying in terms of how | | | | and administrative tasks take place on the Internet |
| those cuts are affecting the adjunct faculty | | | | by way of a personal computer, an online college |
| members. The reason these budget cuts are | | | | teacher is free to change the geographic location he |
| happening is because the funding sources are not | | | | or she is in at any given time of the day or night. |
| equal to the cost of maintain a large physical plant | | | | This means that the online adjunct can literally pack |
| such as college campus. | | | | up an inexpensive laptop and travel across town to a |
| After all, a traditional college campus is really just a | | | | coffee shop or across the state to another city or |
| collection of energy-inefficient buildings surrounded by | | | | across the country to an entirely different state. The |
| asphalt parking lots. These building and parking lots | | | | geographic location of the online instructor does not |
| require almost constant attention from the small | | | | matter in regards to the online college degree |
| army of maintenance workers, and when financial | | | | programs; what does matter is the online adjunct has |
| push comes to shove, the adjunct faculty members | | | | the technical savvy to acquire q wireless signal at the |
| will be dismissed long before the maintenance | | | | destination and log onto the Internet and the online |
| workers because the physical plant represents an | | | | classroom. |
| economic value to the college administrators that | | | | Once the online college classes are accessed the |
| simply cannot be applied to people with earned | | | | teaching can continue on schedule. If nothings else |
| graduate degree that must be paid even insulting | | | | about teaching online college courses for a variety of |
| amounts of bi-weekly salary during the semester; if a | | | | online degree programs is of interest to the person |
| university administrator has to make a choice | | | | with a graduate degree, the complete freedom to |
| between re-paving the parking lot and continuing to | | | | choose at random the physical location from which |
| employ and pay a traditional college adjunct | | | | the teaching is to occur is by most estimations a |
| instructor, the adjunct will always lose to the parking | | | | very good goal oriented plan for finding online faculty |
| lot. | | | | jobs. |