associate professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor
associate professorship noun

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Faculty members promoted to the rank of associate professor include: Patrick Keegan, associate professor of Education; and Afshin Zahraee, associate professor of Construction Engineering and Management Technology. Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025 However, Heath Brown, associate professor of public policy at City University of New York said politics was too unpredictable at the moment to make strong predictions. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025 Jeremy Friedman, associate professor of business and geopolitics at Harvard Business School, told Fortune that rather than being stuck in the middle, Cook may turn out to be a key intermediary, helping the US and China iron out a deal. ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025 Lisa Lowe and Jamie Leonard, graduate students at UCLA, along with Sanjay Mohanty, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA, shared the findings at the American Chemical Society's 2025 meeting in San Diego last month. Gretchen Eichenberg, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for associate professor

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of associate professor was in 1819

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“Associate professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/associate%20professor. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.

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