Budget cuts are forcing traditional colleges and universities to make uncomfortable decisions about adjunct faculty members and those decisions are leading to massive unemployment among individuals with earned graduate degrees. The simply reality is that due to the decisions to make existing faculty members teach more students everyday there will be fewer adjunct instructors teaching in physical college classrooms. Of course, this is normal in a tight money situation such as the one college and university administrators today are faced with as the cost of repairing and maintaining the physical plants, the campuses, far outstrips the schools’ ability to pay for them. Of course, the student populations, which are growing by leaps and bounds since unemployment is such a huge problem for the general public and enrollment always rises higher when there is little employment to be had by citizens. The solution to rising enrollment in colleges, community colleges and universities and diminishing teaching opportunities at physical college campuses for university instructors is to employ distance education technology to create online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs.

The financial profitability and academic efficiency of online college degree programs has be admirably demonstrated for a number of years by for-profit colleges that award their students with the online master degree and online bachelors degree. Indeed, many online adjunct instructors who have mastered the required time management techniques and developed the necessary technical acumen enjoy earning a healthy online adjunct income throughout the year. In the same sense, college teachers working on an adjunct basis for traditional post-secondary academic institutions can earn a decent living by teaching online college classes for the online degree programs being launched by the universities and colleges now.

An online adjunct instructor who focuses on constantly searching for additional online adjunct instructor jobs can scale the online teaching schedule up and down in a manner is alien to a college teacher working at a physical academy. Understandably, the idea of a never-ending search strategy may seem burdensome at first, but its importance will become evident when the issue of controlling the teaching schedule is examined in detail. Perhaps the most important aspect of teaching online is the mobility it allows the online adjunct instructor. For example, if an online college teachers suddenly want to move to another city because the cost of living is lower or the climate is lower or there is some specific desire to experience life in a new city, all that is necessary is to tuck the online college degree programs under the arm and take off for the new destination.

The reason this portability is possible is that all the online teaching duties and all of the associated administrative tasks are located on the Internet, and all that is required to access the Internet is an inexpensive laptop computer with wireless capabilities. This also means it is no longer necessary to spend money on a personal vehicle to drive from college campus to community college campus to university campus in order to arrive at the college classroom door. These are some of the insights into the future of online faculty positions with online degree programs.