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  2. RateMyProfessors.com - Wikipedia

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    Research on in-class evaluations shows that professor ratings increase when students rate the course as easy. [12] The same relationship has been shown for RMP. In an article in the journal Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Clayson investigated what RMP actually rates and concluded that "students will give higher evaluations to ...

  3. Academic tenure in North America - Wikipedia

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    Under the tenure systems adopted by many universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, some faculty positions have tenure and some do not. Typical systems (such as the widely adopted "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American Association of University Professors [5]) allow only a limited period to establish a record of published research, ability ...

  4. Academic ranks in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, Assistant Professor has been the usual entry-level rank for faculty on the "tenure track", although this depends on the institution and the field.Then, promotion to the rank of Associate Professor and later Professor (informally, "Full Professor") indicates that significant work has been done in research, teaching and institutional service.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Academic tenure - Wikipedia

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    Positions with titles such as instructor, lecturer, adjunct professor, research professor etc. do not carry the possibility of tenure, have higher teaching loads (other than maybe the research positions), have less influence within the institution, lower compensation with few or no benefits (see adjunct professor), and little protection of ...

  7. College and university rankings - Wikipedia

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    It considers academic performance, research performance, faculty expertise, resource availability, socially significant activities of graduates, international activities, and international opinion. Each expert independently evaluates these performance indicators for candidate universities. The rating is the average of the expert evaluations. [113]

  8. 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

  9. Course evaluation - Wikipedia

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    A course evaluation is a paper or electronic questionnaire, which requires a written or selected response answer to a series of questions in order to evaluate the instruction of a given course. The term may also refer to the completed survey form or a summary of responses to questionnaires.