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

"We just witnessed the collision of two planetesimals and the dust cloud that gets spewed out of that violent event, which begins reflecting light from the host star," said Paul Kalas, an adjunct professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily

“This isn’t totally new advice—in some ways it’s status quo—but the food industry should certainly worry because it reinforces the message that what they’re selling is making us sick,” said Jerold Mande, an adjunct professor of nutrition at Harvard’s T.H.

From The Wall Street Journal

CFTC, chief executive officer of Gattaca Horizons, and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

From MarketWatch

Mr. Raskin is an adjunct professor of law at New York University, a fellow at NYU’s Institute for Judicial Administration and a co-founder of Uris Acquisitions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beyond his on-screen roles, Finn was an improv performer and also taught at the University of Colorado, where he was an adjunct professor.

From BBC