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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

Ernest called MIT’s bluff, informing Evans that he was welcome to hire experienced cyclotroneers from Berkeley to do the job, but warning that the good ones would demand at least an assistant professorship to move.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik