Questions tagged [professorship]
Queries specific to the duties and responsibilities of professors, as distinct from all other academic staff positions. This tag should not be used for queries that could equally apply to researchers or instructors who are not professors.
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Is 600 hours of teaching per year a lot in Germany? What does it look like?
As a professor at a university of applied science in Germany, is 600 hours of teaching considered a lot? What does it look like? The job description says:
Die Arbeitszeit beträgt grundsätzlich 40 ...
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How do professors advance from 2nd to 1st class in France?
There are three classes of professors in French universities: second, first, and exceptional. I understand that within each class there are several ranks which seem to be based mostly on time since ...
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Canadian Med School Professor looking to work in USA [closed]
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I’m a medical school professor at a Canadian medical school and was interested in potentially seeking a job in the US. Currently I make around $160k CAD pre tax ($124k USD) although ...
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Teaching students to complain effectively about behavior of other faculty
I am an adjunct professor. For some reason, I seem to draw out student complaints about full-time faculty from the students.
The complaints include:
Slapping a student’s hand out of the way when the ...
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Can secretary of a faculty upload letter of recommendation on behalf of the letter author?
I am applying for Ph.D. positions in the USA and for that I have asked the department head of my past institute to write a LOR for me. He agreed to write one for me but the problem is I am applying to ...
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No publication after doing a postdoc
I am currently a postdoc at one of Europe's universities. I have a grant that covers my postdoc position (1.5 years) and it's coming to an end soon. I have been working with one member of the research ...
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Offered to do something for a professor [closed]
I'm in an unpleasant situation since I offered to do an interview with a professor, but unfortunately it has been one month and lack of communication between the professor and me and I'm no longer a ...
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How to seek Professor's "advice on how to proceed"? [duplicate]
Answers to my previous question stated:
It may not be a good idea to send the translations upfront; rather try to email them about your interest and seek their advice on how to proceed. Seek their ...
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What should I do when my supervisor refuses to write a recommendation letter for applications to institutions outside my country?
I want to apply for a PhD position in country X. My supervisor lives in country Y and wants me to apply only in Y. He is the corresponding author of my 4-5 publications. He said if I want to apply for ...
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How to respond when a professor compliments you via email?
In a certain STEM graduate course, my professor made a claim and provided an solution without showing any derivations. After doing this, he mentioned that the students should derive the solution at ...
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Professor says, "I am an especially harsh grader". What does that mean?
So I'm taking an architecture class and there was a word limit for the essay of 500 words. I was wondering if I could go over the 500 word limit and in the email tagline/heading I wrote:
"How ...
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What are the expectations (if any) for time between students' replies to professors' emails?
I am an undergrad student who has recently taken a course under a professor. I sent him an email last Thursday for confirmation that I will be allowed to register for his course (it has not started ...
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How can I contact a professor after few months?
I have written Professor X (Australia) for a Ph.D. position with my CV (in June) and he asked for 3 reference names in return. I sent it. As I did not write him seeing any advertisement so I waited.
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Professor said: "I will encourage you to apply. You can apply for Spring, 2022 or Fall, 2022." I do not know how to comprehend this? [duplicate]
Professor said: "I will encourage you to apply. You can apply for Spring, 2022 or Fall, 2022." I do not know how to comprehend this?
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Do topmost professors have something to read daily (in their locally saturated domain)?
I have this doubt from last year. This doubt arose in me after an academic incident.
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During last year, I presented my progress before a panel of four experts and it went almost well. The ...
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When to switch from "Hello/Dear Professor X" to "Hi X" in email [duplicate]
I am just starting a PhD, and I have been in contact with the supervisor for about 3 months now, that means before the interview so you can assume I was SUPER polite when emailing him!
Since then, I ...
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Why don't poorer countries suffer a complete brain-drain?
My question is about countries such as:
EU countries like Bulgaria, Romania or Poland and
non-EU countries like Russian Federation, Ukraine or Belarus.
A PostDoc fellow might earn at most US$ 2500, ...
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How to deal with too many interfering unnecessary questions from professors about my career plans?
In my department, there is a professor who is not my advisor who constantly asks me about my career plans and how is it going with my research, how far I went in my research, and what did I do in that ...
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Is it bad for professors/supervisors to have their PhD students drop out?
Does it hurt the professor's career in any way if their students drop out? Assume a PhD student gets the professor's funding and publishes an adequate amount of papers. They then decide to quit (maybe ...
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Having lunch with my advisor and his wife after graduation [duplicate]
I have a lovely professor who I've become very close with over the past three years. I am an international student and we are both from the same original culture.
I recently finished my master's and ...
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Is the process for firing endowed professors different from that for tenured professors?
Tenured professors can be fired for a variety of reasons, the most common being incompetence, negligence, immoral/personal conduct, and financial exigency.
Several questions:
Do these four reasons ...
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How do university professors earn money beyond their salary?
How do university professors earn money external to their salary from the institutions where they teach?
As far as I understand:
Obtaining funding from government/companies for doing research.
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Can I contact a corresponding professor before I accept a grad studies offer?
A professor/department provided me with an offer for graduate studies in engineering in Canada.
The professor and I talked briefly before I applied, but the project(s) I would work on during my ...
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Addressing professors with their first name only [duplicate]
I am going to apply for a postdoc call and I have commenced exchanging emails with a professor. In his first reply to my initial email he addressed me with my first name (Dear (my first name)). In my ...
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How to deal with professor who is ignoring my questions? [duplicate]
I am studying data mining in a college in Nepal. In Nepal, students and teachers communicate using Facebook Messenger. Teachers don't share email, and are instead friends with students on Facebook.
I ...
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Is it true that the workload of professors has increased?
In general, a professor teaches basic, intermediate and advanced courses.
The content of basic and intermediate courses is generally based on textbooks. Advanced courses may require recent results. ...
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Faculty Member Enrolling for a Second Degree
Is it possible for a faculty member (tenure-track) to enroll for a second degree (preferably undergrad in another discipline, but related) while being employed? I know that it should also depend on ...
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Assistant professor vs lecturer in the UK [duplicate]
I have been looking at various graduate programs in the UK, and noticed a lot of people under the title "lecturer" taking incoming PhD students. I've completed some graduate studies on a ...
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How to negotiate salary raise after promotion to associate or full professor?
Several posts on this website discussed the negotiation process and tips for new faculty in US. However, I wonder if there are any possibilities or tips to negotiate the salary after being tenured and ...
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Sending a follow up email to prof and ask for the data availability
I sent an email to a professor to share the data they published a paper on (and they are obliged to do it). It's been more than 2 weeks, he has not replied yet.
Should I send a follow-up email under ...
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