full professors
Top faculty rank
Full professors hold the highest standard academic rank at colleges and universities, having advanced through assistant and associate professor levels.
The term distinguishes them from those lower ranks—someone might say She made full professor last year to mark the achievement.
In casual academic speech, often shortened to just "full" or "professor": He's been a full since 2015.
- tenuredGranted permanent position
- academiaHigher education community
- lecternTilted stand for texts
- sabbaticalExtended leave from work
- academic regaliaCeremonial university garments
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full professorsadjuncts
Supplementary additions or elements
adjunct professors · assistant professors · teaching assistants · adjunct faculty · associate professors
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