visiting professor

noun

1. a professor from another institution invited to teach at a university or college for a limited period, usually for a semester or one academic year.

visiting professor

noun

1. a professor invited to teach in a college or university other than his own, often in another country, for a certain period, such as a term or year

Word History and Origins

Origin of visiting professor¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

“The Brunswick paper is unusual,” says Penny Muse Abernathy, a visiting professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications who worked in the industry for 30 years.

From Time

The “educator” portion of his ballot title owes to his role as a visiting professor at Pepperdine University, which the school announced in December.

From Voice of San Diego

In the late 1970s, American University professor Robert Blecker was an undergraduate at Yale, eager to learn about these theories at a lecture from a visiting professor.

From Washington Post

Julian Barbour is an independent theoretical physicist and past visiting professor in physics at the University of Oxford.

From Nautilus

In 2006, when I was a visiting professor at Marquette, I found an envelope with the Esquire emblem on it in my campus mailbox.

From The Daily Beast

She then worked in the Clinton administration for several years before joining Harvard as a visiting professor of law in 1999.

From The Daily Beast

Might he sign up President Bush as a distinguished visiting professor?

From The Daily Beast

Plus, why government, and baseball, would make George W. Bush a good visiting professor.

From The Daily Beast