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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. Adjunct professors in North America - Wikipedia

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    For instance, as of the early 1990s Marvin Kaye, a prolific fiction author, editor and anthologist, also worked as part-time adjunct faculty of creative writing at New York University [6] Another example is Edward H. Shortliffe, a pioneer in medical informatics, who was an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons ...

  4. Academic ranks in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Instructor, Adjunct Lecturer. Faculty who serve part-time, and typically also work actively in their profession (e.g. medicine, engineering, law). Visiting Professorships and Professor-in-Residence. May also include assistant, associate, and full levels/ranks.

  5. Academic staff - Wikipedia

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    Most university faculty members hold a Ph.D. or equivalent highest-level degree in their field. Some professionals or instructors from other institutions who are associated with a particular university (e.g., by teaching some courses or supervising graduate students) but do not hold professorships may be appointed as adjunct faculty.

  6. Lecturer - Wikipedia

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    The ranks Lecturer and Senior Lecturer are also increasingly being adopted by universities in Germany and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It is used for some members of academic staff with permanent positions. [21] [22] [23] In Poland, the related term wykładowca is used for a teaching-only position.

  7. Academic ranks in Canada - Wikipedia

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    These full-time faculty members engage in teaching, research, and service. Only faculty members in these positions are eligible for tenure. In most research-intensive universities, research produced by the individual constitutes the majority of tenure consideration, and pre-tenure faculty have a reduced teaching load. In universities with less ...

  8. Andrew Ng - Wikipedia

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    Ng is an adjunct professor at Stanford University (formerly associate professor and Director of its Stanford AI Lab or SAIL). Ng has also worked in the field of online education, cofounding Coursera and DeepLearning.AI. [4] He has spearheaded many efforts to "democratize deep learning" teaching over 8 million students through his online courses.

  9. List of academic ranks - Wikipedia

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    Adjungerad professor (Visiting/adjunct professor, part-time, non-tenured) Adjunkt (Instructor-lecturer, without Ph.D., permanent teaching position) Forskarassistent (post-doctoral research assistant, non-tenured) Biträdande Lektor (assistant professor, tenure-track) Lektor (associate professor, with Ph.D, tenured) Professor (full professor ...