Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor
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Assistant professor (frequently capitalized as Assistant Professor) is an academic rank used in the United States, Canada, and some other countries. It is generally taken after earning a Doctoral degree and sometimes after several years of holding a postdoctoral researcher position. It is usually below the position of associate professor and is equivalent to the rank of lecturer at most Commonwealth universities. In the United States, assistant professor is often the first position held in a tenure track, although it can also be a non-tenure track position. The title is also commonly used as the English translation of similar positions in other countries.
Usage examples of "assistant professor".
In conjunction with my work at the hospital, I was an assistant professor at UCLA, which has its campus practically next door and where I completed my doctorate.
What he wouldn't give to be an assistant professor in Kelly University again instead of a flat-eyed monster ravening, all unwittingly, through an alien metropolis!
Jim Baker, Instructor and soon to be Assistant Professor of Sociology, found Ninheimer, three days after the first batch of galleys had arrived from the printer, staring at the handful of paper in abstraction.
She could have been one of my good-looking, leggy graduate students from a tobacco farm in the Carolinas, or just as easily, a self-directed thirty-three-year-old assistant professor at the University of Georgia.
Sensing the tremors of approaching war in the summer of 1941, Tordella, then a thirty-year-old assistant professor of mathematics at Loyola University in Chicago, one day walked into the nearby U.
It probably does not matter much for a popular readership, but the difference between an Assistant Professor—.
I resigned my fulltime post, but I am still a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and Oriental Institute, I return every other year to teach.
Or he stays on at Columbia, finishes his doctorate, and his draft board never does pick him up because he is already signed as an assistant professor at N.