A college teacher today working as an adjunct for a traditional post-secondary academic institution has to be very quick to earn a decent living, and that effort is helped by making the effort to stand out from the rest of the adjunct professors by possess sharp technical skills. It should come as no surprise to a college instructor that distanced education technology is changing the academic labor model by making possible the easy and inexpensive deployment of online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs. Further, new and return college students are quite happy to earn online degrees for military, enroll in an online business degree program or work toward a mechanical engineering degree online from their personal computers at work or at home.
Student populations have swollen larger recently than at any time since the middle of the last century. Many of these college students are taking online college classes at the thousands of community colleges. The alert prospective online adjunct instructor wanting to secure a decent share of the multiple online adjunct income streams available to those individuals with graduate degrees and a high level of technical savvy would do well to submit applications for online faculty positions to those community colleges. Taking the initiative in the case of teaching online means developing an academic uniqueness that leans to online adjunct teaching positions and the many community colleges are an excellent place to start applying for online adjunct jobs.
With that search strategy in mind, the following links will allow college teacher direct access to the online college degree programs offered by the listed community colleges.
Alabama Southern Community College
Human Resources/Academic Affairs Office
Alabama Southern Community College
P.O. Box 2000
Monroeville, AL 36461
On the Employment Opportunities page the application form is downloadable in PDF.
An additional note on the Employment Opportunities page warns that prospective online instructors seeking adjunct teaching positions must submit an official application form in order to be considered for a teaching position of any kind. Further, an official transcript must be received before a prospective applicant will be hired to teach.
Bevill State Community College
This community college has five locations that serve North Western Alabama. The Employment Opportunities portal provides a link to a PDF that is an application form for faculty positions.
An aggressive online adjunct instructor earning a full time income from online teaching understand that it is necessary to constantly apply for new online adjunct jobs since colleges and universities are constantly offering their students new online degree programs. Additionally, the rotational aspect of a focused search strategy for online college degree programs provides the online college teacher a baseline with which to measure the current amount of pay for online college courses against the required amount of expected teaching and associated administrative duties. If nothing else, the successful online adjunct instructor will view online faculty positions as a marketplace for the promotion of an educational and technical skill set. Since the online college teacher is more an academic entrepreneur than a faculty member in the traditional academic sense, it is good business planning to always be in the market for additional online adjunct employment opportunities.