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professorship - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun professor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
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professor + -ship
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The path to full professorship is difficult enough, without having to publish twice as many papers in order to compete with male peers.
Archive 2007-01-01 Peggy 2007
The path to full professorship is difficult enough, without having to publish twice as many papers in order to compete with male peers.
Personal Views of Science Peggy 2007
He taught at the University of Sussex in the late 60s, and at King's College London, where he held an honorary fixed-term professorship from 1981 to 1984.
The Guardian World News 2011
A fixed-term professorship with the status of a civil servant is available for three years.
Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010
What most people don’t know about the path to professorship is that between the time you get your doctorate (probably your late 20s) and getting a faculty job, everyone does some time as a postdoc researcher, sometimes taking two or three postdocs positions.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010
(Younger children have no effect on a man’s chances for tenure, and men’s promotion to full professorship is not affected by children of any age.) — Does Science Promote Women?
Primary Sources 2007
(Younger children have no effect on a man’s chances for tenure, and men’s promotion to full professorship is not affected by children of any age.) — Does Science Promote Women?
Primary Sources 2007
In the foreign Universities a professorship is a high thing.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004
William of Orange declared that a professorship was all too poor a reward for such devotion, but the doctor would accept of no other, vowing that his ambition was completely satisfied in being connected with such a wonderful institution of learning.
Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons 1919
If he saw promotion, perhaps the presidency, within his grasp, he might deem it worth his while to stay; if not, his professorship should be a stepping-stone to something better.
The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890
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