Timeline for Who hires a visiting professor?
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| Sep 10, 2014 at 3:33 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Another note is that at many institutions, the standard sabbatical is "one semester at full pay, or one year at half pay". Someone who takes the half pay option would certainly be allowed to pick up some teaching duties at the host institution to help make up the difference. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 12:12 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | I have seen many meanings of "adjunct". I once worked for a university where the official title for one-year full time faculty was "adjunct", as in my position of "adjunct assistant professor". This was required by the state policies governing the institution. Other schools use "adjunct" only for part-time faculty. (Also, my fixed-term postdoc was just "Assistant Professor", with no modifier before "assistant") | |
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| Sep 8, 2014 at 13:42 | comment | added | RoboKaren | Language weakened. @JeffE - adjunct are usually local folks teaching a single course ad hoc (sometimes multiple ones). Visiting usually implies a full-term employment. | |
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| Sep 8, 2014 at 12:50 | comment | added | RoboKaren | Ok, I'll weaken my language on frequency. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 12:18 | comment | added | JeffE | Again, all this varies from one university to another, and from one department to another. Public universities tend to forbid their faculty from teaching while on sabbatical; private universities tend not to. Replacement hires for faculty on sabbatical are more often called adjunct faculty or lecturers, rather than visiting faculty, in my experience. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 10:51 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | I know a few examples of math faculty taking visiting professorships elsewhere during their sabbatical year. I think the usual idea is that they want to work with a particular person or group during that time, and if they are going to live in another city for a semester it's nice to have some extra salary even if they are being paid for the sabbatical. (They may now have two housing bills, etc.) There is so much teaching in math that, at a large school, if the department chair wants to, she can almost certainly find a few courses for someone to teach. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 5:59 | history | answered | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 3.0 |