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

That brings us to Jeff Tischauser, an adjunct professor and a frequent protester at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago.

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“You can get a contaminated surface even though there’s no obvious blood,” says Dr. John Ward, director of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and an adjunct professor at Emory University.

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“Since we are now in the era of NIL and revenue sharing, where cash is king,” said David Carter, an adjunct professor of sports business at USC, “every school hoping to play competitive big-time football needs to generate as much revenue and excitement around its program as possible. But since empty seats don’t buy beer or foam fingers, let alone merchandise and parking, any and all other forms of revenue are needed to offset these chronic game day losses in revenue.”

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David Carter, principal at The Sports Business Group and adjunct professor of sports business at USC, said teams are usually valued based on a multiple of their annual revenue, and that valuation also takes into account the likelihood of future revenue growth.

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Megachurches with the means to livestream services online or by broadcasting “could be a powerful tool for promoting political candidates,” said David Brockman, a nonresident scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and an adjunct professor at Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University.

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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.