visiting professor

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noun

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.

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Origin of visiting professor

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby visiting professor

visitation rights, visitatorial, visiting card, visiting fireman, visiting nurse, visiting professor, visiting teacher, visitor, visitor centre, visitorial, visitor's passport

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How to use visiting professor in a sentence

“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.
The Key Role a Local Newspaper Played in the Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery's Murder|Janell Ross/Brunswick, Ga.|November 30, 2021|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.
Morning Report: About the Business in Faulconer’s ‘Businessman’ Ballot|Voice of San Diego|July 26, 2021|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.
The Jamaican connection|Robert Samuels|January 13, 2021|Washington Post
Julian Barbour is an independent theoretical physicist and past visiting professor in physics at the University of Oxford.
Time Flows Toward Order - Issue 93: Forerunners|Julian Barbour|December 2, 2020|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.
Benjamin Percy: How I Write|Noah Charney|June 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She then worked in the Clinton administration for several years before joining Harvard as a visiting professor of law in 1999.
The Next Harriet Miers?|Paul Campos|May 1, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Might he sign up President Bush as a distinguished visiting professor?
Ken Starr's Liberal Lovefest|Tunku Varadarajan|March 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Plus, why government, and baseball, would make George W. Bush a good visiting professor.
Ken Starr's Liberal Lovefest|Tunku Varadarajan|March 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for visiting professor

visiting professor

noun

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

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