tenured professor
Job-secure academic
A tenured professor holds a permanent academic position that provides strong protection against dismissal.
Tenure is granted after years of probationary teaching and research, typically following rigorous review.
The system aims to protect academic freedom—allowing scholars to pursue controversial research without fear of losing their jobs: She made full tenured professor at forty-two.
- academicRelating to education or theory
- facultyInherent power or ability
- publish or perishAcademic career dictum
- sabbaticalExtended leave from work
- sabbatical leavePaid absence for study
publish · lectures · tweed · ivy · dissertation · emeritus · department · faculty lounge · scholar · campus · research · office hours · peer review · curriculum vitae · doctorate · mentor · provost · seminar
- academicscourse, math, syllabus week, class, science
- job securityjob security, job protection, permanent position, job stability, seniority
- academic titlesdean, provost, chancellor, lecturer, senior lecturer
- research professorssenior researcher, medical researcher, lab director
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, Darwin, chemist
- expertsexperts, expert, specialist, masters, specialists
tenured professoradjunct professor
Non-permanent college teacher
adjunct faculty · visiting professor · gig worker · temp worker · independent contractor
tenured professoradjunct
Subordinate addition to something
adjunct professor · lecturer · visiting professor · teaching assistant · graduate student
tenured professorpublic intellectual
Scholar engaging broad audiences
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