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Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Professor, and other professorships with highest honour and contributions to knowledge and society. Level E – Professor, or Professorial or Senior Principal Research Fellow; equivalent to Distinguished/Endowed Professor (US) or Professor (UK).
Distinguished (or similar) professor (other such titles of special distinction vary by institution) Professor ("full professor", i.e., the destination of the "tenure track," upon exhausting all promotions other than those of special distinction) Associate professor (a mid-level, usually tenured, faculty member, which can lead to "full" professor)
A tenured full professor who retires from an educational institution in good standing may be given the title "professor emeritus". [4] The title " professor emerita " is sometimes used for women. In most systems and institutions, the rank is bestowed on all professors who have retired in good standing, while at others, it needs a special act or ...
In that year, he joined the University of Southern Maine as a professor of American and New England Studies. He served as the founding director of the American and New England Studies program at the university from 1987 to 1997 and continued as a Professor until his retirement, when he was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2011.
Some academic and/or scholarly organizations may also bestow the title "distinguished professor" in recognition of achievement over the course of an academic career. For example, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture annually recognizes up to five faculty members at architecture schools in the United States and Canada with the ...
Retired faculty may retain formal or informal links with their university, such as library privileges or office space. At some institutions faculty who have retired after achieving the rank of professor are given the title "professor emeritus" (male, French: professeur émérite) or "professor emerita" (female, French: professeure émérite).
Stephen Cole (June 1, 1941 – September 7, 2018) was an American sociologist, who was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stony Brook University (retired since 2011). His scholarly work was on the development of the sociology of science as an academic field.
Adjunct and conjoint professor are honorary titles bestowed upon a person to formally recognise that person's non-employment 'special relationship' with the university. Emeritus professor is a title bestowed upon a retired person who has rendered distinguished service to the university. They have nearly always held the title of professor at the ...