Full-time faculty at North American universities is divided into three ranks: assistant, associate and full professors. All three ranks are referred to as tenure-track or tenure-stream faculty, ...

Assistant Professor: An appointment requiring an earned doctorate or terminal degree or equivalent and the potential for excellence in teaching and research. Associate Professor: An appointment ...

Ideally, colleges shouldn't have anyone but full professors run their departments, Lawrence Abele argues. But if they must, here are some guidelines to make the best of the situation. Succession ...

After completing a Ph.D., a postdoctoral research position is traditionally the next step in an academic career. According to Boston University, this experience leads to an assistant professorship, ...

I am a stereotype: the “stalled female associate professor” for whom a second book that persistently resists completion translates into a scarlet letter F for failure to fulfill the potential upon ...

First, the term professor refers to a rank in an academic setting for those who teach in higher education, it does not indicate the type of degree one has. Usually, the rank goes from the instructor ...

“Sustained rejection of a total institution often requires sustained orientation to its formal organization, and hence, paradoxically, a deep kind of involvement in the establishment.” —Erving Goffman ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

New study published in “Nature” and EU-funded group highlight how non-native pines outgrow native forest ranges.

Seven years after earning tenure at the College of Wooster, Judith C. Amburgey-Peters is still working a “nonstop, crazy schedule on 6,000 different things.” But she is not sure whether the 80 hours a ...

The Associate Professor Growth Grants provide funding for research, scholarly, and creative work projects that will assist in advancing the careers of tenured Associate Professors on the CU Boulder ...

Jeffrey Lewis, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas, will use $2 million from the ...