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Teaching stream (assistant professor, teaching stream; associate professor, teaching stream; and professor, teaching stream): These relatively new designations are used at only some institutions. The defining attribute of these designations is the high teaching requirement, in exchange for less research, and higher expectations for teaching ...
Lector universitar or Șef de lucrări (Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Lecturer): holding a doctorate degree and local-impact research activity; Asistent universitar (Assistant Professor/ Assistant Lecturer): holding a doctorate degree (or in case of a limited time contract they can be in the process of getting a doctorate degree ...
A typical professorship sequence is assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor in order. After seven years, if successful, assistant professors can get tenure and also get promotion to associate professor. [5] There is high demand for vacant tenure-track assistant professor positions, often with hundreds of applicants.
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.
At some universities, the distinction between "academic faculty" and "administrative faculty" is made explicit by the former being contracted for nine months per year, meaning that they can devote their time to research (and possibly be absent from the campus) during the summer months, while the latter are contracted for twelve months per year.
The expenditures of international students supported 62,737 jobs in 2015, and 79,034 jobs in 2016. [24] British Columbia also experienced an increase in their GDP from $2.39 billion in 2015 up to $2.76 in 2016. Over the same period, jobs supported by foreign enrollment in British Columbia increased from 35,294 to 40,499. [24]
Armand de Mestral (BCL 1966) – professor of international law; Carrie Derick (BEd 1881, BA 1890, MSc 1896) – first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill) Arti Dhand (PhD 2000) – associate professor at the University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion [7] Vibert Douglas (PhD 1926) – astrophysicist [8]
In English Canada, 25 per cent of professors were union members. CAUT increasingly encouraged member associations to certify, and by 1980 over 50 per cent of faculty were unionized. [10] As of c. 2006, the unionization rate of academic staff was approximately 79 per cent, well above the average of 30 per cent for all occupations in Canada. [11]