associate professor
noun
a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.
associate professorship
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a word derived from
associate professor.
Example Sentences
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After emigrating from South Korea in his early 30s, he earned a doctorate in education at Indiana University Bloomington and eventually moved to rural Kentucky for an associate professorship at a small Christian university.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The University of New Hampshire offered Mr. Simic an associate professorship in 1973, and he ended up teaching at the school for more than three decades.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
To summon it westward, Rainey hired a young Yale man, Amos Alonzo Stagg, enticing the coach not only with a sizeable salary but an associate professorship and full tenure.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011
When the professor dies, the division is apt to downgrade his post to an associate professorship, thus making proper replacement even more difficult than it would be normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
He left an associate professorship at M.I.T. in 1922 to become assistant director of S.O.I.'s research department.
From Time Magazine Archive
