Full time faculty positions for Master's Level instructors- do they exist?

South was recently opening up some new positions. My faculty advisor emailed me and recommended that I apply and hinted that I would have a very good chance of getting hired. I only have a Masters.

It was the non-competition clause that caused me to decline to do so. With the recent DOJ lawsuit, that might have been a good choice. I don't know what the pay would have been, but I know I made more last year by combining my full time job at a community college, with my online adjuncting.

 

It is difficult to answer the question because there is a variation in salaries. Most are probably in the range that you state, but I know some that are in the six figures (usually those with both teaching and significant administrative duties). We do not have collective bargaining, so every faculty contract is unique and negotiated according to a number of factors, e.g. whether one has doctoral degree, is teaching at the undergraduate or graduate level, the demand of the discipline (some disciplines are harder to recruit than others) and what they faculty member brings to the table.

For example the retired general, the retired CEO of a large firm and the academic with a large record of publications, presentations and grants, were each given higher salaries than those with "fresh" PhDs and not as much experience or accomplishments. Our Doctor of Pharmacy faculty make more than those teaching in an undergrad certificate program. Graduate faculty also have lighter teaching loads than undergraduate faculty.

 

Could someone elaborate on the significance of having an intermediate graduate degree such as the Ed.S., or C.A.G.S. in relation to acquiring online adjunct positions. I am soon to be a newly minted Ed.S. and must decide to either go on with the Ph.D./Ed.D. journey or not. In addition, I notice that Liberty University's ED.S. seems to have more of a theory and research component that many other Ed.S. programs. I have noticed that many Ed.S. programs are mainly practice focused with less research/theory. I believe that is why Liberty University allows our Ed.S. to smoothly roll into the Ed.D. in that we ED.S. students take nine Ed.D. courses and one that is specific to the Ed.S. degree tract and not transferable to the Ed.D. Does any one have any comments? Your feedback will certainly be appreciated as it will help me decide what is next .

 

Correct. I missed the "online" qualifier in the OP. Both jobs are primarily B&M jobs, though both have (voluntary) online components.

 

Depending on the academic discipline, folks can do really well with master's degrees in small community colleges in isolated areas in the rural south. Here in Arkansas, the 2 year colleges are desperate for folks with masters degrees in Nursing.