adjunct professor

American  

noun

1. a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time.

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Usage

What does adjunct professor mean? An adjunct professor is a college or university professor whose employment is temporary or part-time.Adjunct professor (often shortened to simply adjunct)  is typically used to indicate that a professor does not have tenure or is not eligible for tenure. Tenure is a status granted to some professors (after they reach a certain amount of experience) that makes their position essentially permanent. Due to the temporary or part-time status of adjunct professors, this title sometimes carries a connotation that associates it with the difficulties of being in such a position, such as job insecurity and lack of benefits.Example: My math professor is an adjunct professor so he might not be here next semester.

Etymology

Origin of adjunct professor

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

She also is an associate adjunct professor of management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The challenge is still: Can we make the science and technology work?” said George Tynan, adjunct professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s nuclear science and engineering department.

From The Wall Street Journal

But La Niña “doesn’t always mean drought,” said meteorologist Jan Null, an adjunct professor at San Jose State University.

From Los Angeles Times

"It was hard for me to believe, because there was such an overwhelming case against Hernández," said Michael Shifter, an adjunct professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.

From BBC

She is currently an adjunct professor at Fordham School of Law, a CNN contributor, and a writer for both the Contrarian and Cafe.

From Slate