By Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Ed
The college, which now relies on a stable of 2,700 adjunct instructors to staff its online courses, says that the pilot was a success and that it will hire 45 full-time faculty members by the end of the summer, including some from its existing adjunct pool. This is a small but significant step for Southern New Hampshire, which has become a model for nonprofit universities building large-scale online programs. Online institutions that serve nontraditional students are booming. Meanwhile, doctoral candidates vastly outnumber available tenure-track faculty jobs at traditional colleges. The new faculty members at Southern New Hampshire’s online college will not conform to the classic archetype. They will not enjoy the trappings of living and teaching in a college town; the faculty members will work remotely—sometimes hundreds of miles from the university’s headquarters, in Manchester, N.H.
http://chronicle.com/article/Southern-New-Hampshire-U/146443/
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