Here you'd be offered a TA (teaching assistantship) as you work on a
Ph.D.. If that "aid" runs out, you might be hired as an "instructor"
or "adjunct" something or other. A vast amount of teachng is done by
folks with and without Ph.D.s in this middle realm.
"Professor" is reserved for tenure-track lines, starting with
"assistant professor." One generally becomes "associate professor"
when he or she gets tenure. Some never become full professors. It
would be nice if a few could be knocked back a level once in a while,
but then tenure would have no meaning. "Professor" is an appropriate
title for anyone from assistant to full professor, but they are rarely
called that except by unctious undergraduates and by themselves at
their academic conferences. Only at small colleges do they call their
profs "Doctor" and sometimes in a university's College of Education --
it depends on whether a the faculty is mix of Ph.D.s and non-Ph.D.s.
I had a student whom I advised who was taking a "women's studies"
class she was fairly indifferent to as a general requirement for her
degree. She related how she had called the instructor by her first
name. The instructor said to her, "Do you call all your professors by
their first name or only the female ones," to which she replied, "I
don't know. This is the first time I've ever had a professor for a
TA."
I don't know whether I laughed so hard I cried or the other way around.
Joel W.
On 5/6/07, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here you would be offered a tutor position while you work on your Fud
> and then go for a senior tutor position once you got it. Then you'd
> apply for a tenured Lecturer position and so on up the greasy pole.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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