full professor
Top faculty rank
Full professor is the highest standard rank in the academic hierarchy at universities, above associate professor and assistant professor.
Someone at this level has typically demonstrated sustained excellence in research, teaching, and service over many years.
Often shortened to simply professor: She made full professor at forty-two.
The "full" distinguishes the rank from lower professorships that share the title.
- tenureProtected employment status
- tenure trackProbationary academic employment path
- academicRelating to education or theory
- chairSingle-person sitting furniture
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
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- academic positionstenure track, postdoc, department chair, visiting lecturer, research fellow
- professorshipsendowed chair
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- educatorseducator, teacher, teachers, instructor, tutor
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, librarian, counselor
full professoradjunct
Subordinate addition to something
adjunct professor · teaching assistant · part-time faculty · graduate student · assistant professor
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