academic career
University teaching path
An academic career is professional work within higher education and research institutions—the path of professors, researchers, and scholars who make universities their professional home.
It typically involves teaching, publishing research, and progressing through ranks from graduate student to tenured professor.
She left industry to pursue an academic career.
His academic career spanned forty years at Oxford.
- professorSenior university teacher
- teachingProfession of instructing others
- course loadEnrolled classes collectively
- office hoursDesignated meeting availability
- tenure trackProbationary academic employment path
publish or perish · sabbatical leave · publishing · university · ivory tower · lecturer · grant writing · adjunct faculty · mentoring · emeritus · annual review · peer review · faculty senate · college · researcher · graduate school · department chair · research institute
- academic memoirsintellectual journey, university life
academic careergig economy
Work based on temporary contracts
freelancing · odd jobs · day labor · hustling · self-employment
academic, career, academy, academics, academically, academician, academia, careers, careered