assistant professor
noun
a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.
assistant professorship
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a word derived from
assistant professor.
Example Sentences
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The hospital said that Soni’s assistant professorship ended in December, 2017, and he no longer has a position there.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
My dance with the tenure track came to an end more or less where it began: On the campus of a small liberal arts college where I was a candidate for an assistant professorship.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2018
In 1965 he accepted an assistant professorship in the humanities at Stanford.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2017
Sophomore Alexandra Shapiro and 29 of her classmates sent an impassioned open letter to the university’s administration, asking that Powers’ temporary position be converted to a tenure-track assistant professorship.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2016
Just before his departure for Europe, the university had granted him an assistant professorship at a salary of $3,000.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
