SNHU Online faculty members come from all over the United States and around the world. They hail from Ireland, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, and beyond.
But whether they’re connecting from across the world or across town, the SNHU Online faculty brings extensive academic, career, and life experience to the classroom. They’re experts in their fields, and they meet strict education and background criteria.
Above all, they share a passion for bringing out the best in each and every student.
- Review the current online adjunct positions and applicable course descriptions (undergraduate or graduate).
- Complete the online instructor application and attach your CV for review.
- If your qualifications match our current instructional needs, you will receive an email requesting official transcripts. Once all transcripts are received, your file will be reviewed by a member of faculty support team.
- Upon review of your file, if it is determined that your background and qualifications meet our needs, you will receive an email with ''Qualification Review Forms'' for the courses you are qualified to teach. Once these forms are completed and returned your file will be sent to the Associate Dean for final review.
- After receiving approval, we will provide you with details of our Online Instructor Training Program.
- Once you have successfully completed training, your name will be added to our faculty pool.
Instructor Training:
- SNHU College of Online and Continuing Education (COCE) provide all instructors with tailored training for online and hybrid course delivery models. New COCE faculty training incorporates COCE instructor expectations, best practices for teaching online and hybrid course delivery models, facilitating group projects, creating a student-centered learning communities and effectively using COCE academic technologies. Our instructor training program is delivered synchronously, in an online format, using Blackboard 8 Academic Suite. Training is required of all new COCE instructors. This program is free to all COCE instructors and represents our commitment to faculty development and training.
- Please be aware that teaching assignments may be temporary, part-time and/or on-call and may be immediate or as needed, and we are not able to guarantee regular teaching appointments.
- When scheduling for an upcoming term, potential instructors will be sent an assignment letter with a specified date in which the letter must be returned. If the assignment is not accepted by the specified date in the letter or is the letter is received after the date, the course will be re-assigned to another instructor.
Currently there are two formats to the classes we offer at SNHU:
“Content Enhanced” courses:
- The majority of our courses are Content Enhanced courses. The Content Enhanced courses are already set up for delivery and the format is student-centered, media-rich, and objective-driven. It is geared for reusability and emphasis is placed on consistency of content, scope and rigor, implementation of best practices, and outcomes-based learning approaches. The Content Enhanced course will be provided to you along with a facilitator's guide. Any course modifications should be discussed with the appropriate Associate Dean.
Instructor Designed courses:
- While we are currently updating our course library to move from Instructor Designed courses to Content Enhanced courses, there are still a number of courses which will be offered in this format. You will be given access to SNHU department approved syllabi and other resource materials. You will be required to create your syllabus and your course based on the approved learning objectives, topics and textbooks. You are responsible for the production of original course content (lecture notes, supplemental presentations/case studies/group work). The Associate Deans are available to answer questions and give assistance.
- The compensation is $2200 per 8 week course, and $2500 per eleven week course (undergraduate and graduate, respectively).
- Undergraduate instructors are paid twice during the 8 week term.
- Graduate instructors are paid three times during the 11 week term.
- Most courses are capped at 20 students. Some writing intensive courses, such as Eng/Lit are capped at 15 students per class. In order for the class to run, there needs to be a minimum of 8 students registered for the class.
- All courses are asynchronous, as most of our students and faculty are located around the globe.
- Faculty may include OPTIONAL synchronous elements to their courses (Office Hours, Skype, etc.), but will need to accommodate students in different time zones.
- All four graduate terms are 11 weeks in duration, and start (approximately) in September, January, March and June each academic year.
- Most six undergraduate terms are 8 weeks. There are some accounting and finance courses that are 16 weeks in length. You will be informed of term start dates in your Assignment Notification.
- No, all exams are online, without the need for proctors. We also discourage the use of timed exams due to technical difficulties that may occur for student’s overseas or our military population.
- The Department Chair at the main SNHU campus or our COCE Associate Deans determine the required text(s) for each course.
- As the instructor, you have the option to incorporate supplementary reading materials in your class such as free online web sources. Web based materials and resources can often add richness to your course and are free for the student. This is also a way for you the instructor to personalize your course and incorporate creativity.
- We encourage instructors to use their own web based materials and resources to add richness to their course. These resources are free for the student and can offer instructor freedom and creativity.
- Textbooks are determined for the academic year; however editions are subject to change at the discretion of the publisher. Please wait until you receive your assignment letter before ordering your free text desk copy from the publisher.
- Adjunct faculty are responsible for obtaining their own textbook(s) and any available ancillaries from the publisher. Each term a book list will be posted in the Faculty eSource along with directions for ordering and publisher contact information.