shootpost wrote:
If you have no research and no PhD and the school is begging you to be a professor, the school isn't very reputable.
I say go for it then.
An adjunct is a hired (for not much) gun to teach a specific class. Research and PhD are not necessarily needed. Do you know your stuff (education and experience), can you teach it, and do you have at least a Masters in the area? It's not a tenure-track position. We don't care one iota about any of the stuff in that rambling error-filled essay he for some reason called a resume'.
For a tenure-track position, we do care mostly about research, but also about fit and culture and motivation and other indicators that you might be a good person to work with for years, will represent us well, and will treat the students right. We do ask for thorough statements on teaching philosophy and research philosophy.
Source: full professor in Engineering who has been on a whole lot of faculty search committees at a couple very different schools. But adjuncts are often chosen by the dept chair with dean approval and don't go through a whole search committee and interview process.