adjunct professor

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjunct professor¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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

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Dr. Mir Faizal, an Adjunct Professor at UBC Okanagan's Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his collaborators, Drs. Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir, and Francesco Marino, have shown that the underlying fabric of reality operates in a way no computer could ever replicate.

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Mr. Tkacik is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics.

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"The marine environment is the cradle of a lot of vertebrates," said Liu, an assistant adjunct professor of integrative biology and an assistant curator in the UC Museum of Paleontology.

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Cesare R. Mainardi is an adjunct professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management.

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When To Use

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.