professorships
University teaching posts
Professorships are academic positions held by professors at colleges or universities.
The term often refers specifically to endowed or named positions that carry special prestige and funding: She was appointed to the distinguished professorship in medieval history.
A professorship implies not just teaching duties but research responsibilities and institutional standing.
Inherent power or ability
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
- universityHigher education institution
- collegeHigher education institution
- chairSingle-person sitting furniture
endowed · appointment · academic · scholar · lecturer · instructor · tenure-track · emeritus
Formal instructional talks
- seminarsStructured educational discussions
- courseworkStudent academic tasks
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- pedagogyArt of instruction
instruction · tutorials · students · classes · grading · syllabus · mentoring · advising
Fixed without end
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- securityProtection from threat
- stabilityResistance to displacement
- promotionRank increase or publicity
career · seniority · probationary · review · evaluation · contract · indefinite · protected
Issued written material
- grantsAwarded funds for purposes
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- conferencesOrganized professional assemblies
laboratory · scholarship · citations · fieldwork · studies · methodology · collaboration · findings
Giving informed guidance
- guidanceAdvice for decisions
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- protégéPerson guided by expert
- coachingGuiding others to improve
nurturing · development · support · sponsorship · training · recommendation · networking · postdocs
faculty
Inherent power or ability
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
- universityHigher education institution
- collegeHigher education institution
chair · endowed · appointment · academic · scholar · lecturer · instructor · tenure-track · emeritus · visiting
lectures
Formal instructional talks
- seminarsStructured educational discussions
- courseworkStudent academic tasks
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
pedagogy · instruction · tutorials · students · classes · grading · syllabus · mentoring · advising · supervision
permanent
Fixed without end
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- securityProtection from threat
- stabilityResistance to displacement
promotion · career · seniority · probationary · review · evaluation · contract · indefinite · protected · guaranteed
publication
Issued written material
- grantsAwarded funds for purposes
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
conferences · laboratory · scholarship · citations · fieldwork · studies · methodology · collaboration · findings · sabbatical
advising
Giving informed guidance
- guidanceAdvice for decisions
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- protégéPerson guided by expert
coaching · nurturing · development · support · sponsorship · training · recommendation · networking · postdocs · collaboration
- academiauniversities, graduation cap, biology department, thesis statement, cited
- education historypublic schooling, education reforms, school reform, educational reforms, one-room school
- scholarshipacademic papers, publications, research papers, theories, dissertations
- philanthropydonations, charity work, donate, give, giving
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
- Russian universitiesMSU, state universities, polytechnics, technical institutes, conservatories
professorshipsunemployment
Being without paid work
temporary contracts · gig work · joblessness · casual labor · contract work