Sentences with phrase «full professor often»

For example, the job of being an associate professor has two main tasks, teaching and research, but the promotion to full professor often is based exclusively or at least heavily on performance as a researcher.

Not exact matches

And yet these schools have shown how effective they are both at turning out full - blown startups and at fostering the friendships, connections, and contacts with both professors and investors that often lead to successful ventures after graduation.

Full of exciting new ideas, a starting professor often operates more like a more senior partner than a boss.

The researchers found that most institutions had only ad hoc policies for dealing with full - time professors on contract, and even those policies often varied by department.

Non-tenured full - timers are often hired to teach introductory or intermediate courses to undergraduates — courses that most tenured and tenure - track professors, caught up in the publish - or - perish world, don't have the energy or inclination to take on.

His research has found that the one opportunity for promotion that is available to tenured associate professors — a promotion to full rank — often goes unrealized.

Although most university provosts expect their associate professors to work toward promotion to full professor, department cultures often don't reflect these expectations.

Professor Giles Harrison, who led an international research team including scientists from the University of Reading's Meteorology department, the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, said: «The sky is often full of clues to weather changes, and asperitas provides distinctive visualisation of complex and turbulent air motions in the lower atmosphere.»

Still, don't shortchange your professional working experience; colleges and universities often rely on the practical experience of their adjunct professors to round out the theory and research experience that full - time professors bring to the classroom.