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2. Adjunct professor - Wikipedia

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   An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, but the term is generally agreed to mean a bona-fide part-time faculty member in an adjunct position at an institution of higher education.

3. Academic tenure in North America - Wikipedia

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   The job security granted by tenure is necessary to recruit talented individuals into university professorships, because in many fields private industry jobs pay significantly more; as Schrecker puts it, providing professors "the kind of job security that most other workers can only dream of" counterbalances universities' inability to compete ...

4. Professors in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The term "professors" in the United States refers to a group of educators at the college and university level.In the United States, while "Professor" as a proper noun (with a capital "P") generally implies a position title officially bestowed by a university or college to faculty members with a PhD or the highest level terminal degree in a non-academic field (e.g., MFA, MLIS), [citation needed ...

5. Academic tenure - Wikipedia

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   Academics are divided into two classes: On the one hand, professors (W2/W3&C3/C4 positions in the new and old systems of pay grades) are employed as state civil servants and hold tenure as highly safeguarded lifetime employment; On the other hand, there is a much larger group of "junior staff" on fixed-term contracts, research grants ...

6. Adjunct professors in North America - Wikipedia

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   Some have argued that the increase in the use of non-tenured faculty is the result of “financial pressures, administrators’ desire for more flexibility in hiring, firing and changing course offerings, and the growth of community colleges and regional public universities focused on teaching basics and preparing students for jobs.” [5 ...

7. List of academic ranks - Wikipedia

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   Professor Associado or Professor Coordenador (associate professor) – PhD required; Professor Auxiliar com Agregação (assistant professor) – PhD and Agregação (habilitation) required; Professor Auxiliar or Professor Adjunto (assistant professor) – PhD required. Extinct ranks: Assistente (teaching assistant) - without a PhD