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There are multiple 'professor' titles, but only one tenured faculty role. The tenured faculty is the holy grail, and everyone else is underpaid and overworked.
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
There are multiple 'professor' titles, but only one tenured faculty role. The tenured faculty is the holy grail, and everyone else is underpaid and overworked. [0]
You have instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. There's also such things as visiting professor (temporary postition) or professor emeritus (used to be a professor).
[0]. https://www.bu.edu/handbook/appointments-and-promotions/classification-of-ranks-and-titles/ https://www.bu.edu/handbook/appointments-and-promotions/clas...
- eesmith 7y agoCould you clarify what 'one tenured faculty role' means? The link you gave says "The granting of Tenure, discussed in “Tenure and Promotion on the Charles River Campus”, is a separate guarantee that is not implied by any of the titles discussed in this section." The tenure document, for example, says that 'The award of tenure to an Assistant Professor shall include promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.' So 'tenured associate professor' is a tenured faculty role, in addition to the 'tenured professor' faculty, such as http://www.bu.edu/wheelock/dr-leslie-dietiker-promoted-to-associate-professor-with-tenure/ http://www.bu.edu/wheelock/dr-leslie-dietiker-promoted-to-as... .
- kd0amg 7y agoI think GP is using "role" to mean the collection of tasks/functions performed by a person rather than their job title. As far as I can tell, duties and incentives don't change as much when going from associate to full professor as when going from assistant to associate.
- eesmith 7y agoThanks. I think I'm getting stuck on "The tenured faculty" rather than simply "tenure".