assistant professor

noun

1. a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.

assistant professor

noun

1. a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor

Other Word Forms

• assistant professorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of assistant professor¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Mr. Ferguson is an assistant professor of international relations at Hitotsubashi University and a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo.

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Ms. Zanzalari is an assistant professor of economics at Seton Hall University.

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Administrators rely too heavily on student reviews when deciding whether to retain adjuncts, assistant professors and even associates.

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Larry Barlow, assistant professor of marriage and family therapy at Capella University, recounts a personal episode that brought him and his wife up short.

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Choi is now an assistant professor at the Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology, Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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