associate professor

noun

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

Examples of associate professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Many people face that dilemma, Lizzy Pope, PhD, RD, an associate professor and director of the undergraduate dietetics program at the University of Vermont, tells SELF. Caroline Tien, SELF, 11 Sep. 2024 Jonathan Abel, an expert on Brady material and associate professor at UC Law San Francisco, reviewed court records from the seven deputies’ cases reporters identified. Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024 Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, views the slop takeover as the logical result of how Facebook works. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024 Francis Galgano, an associate professor at the department of geography and the environment at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said poor governance in acutely vulnerable areas — especially in transboundary river basins — and the deepening climate crisis were two major concerns. Sam Meredith, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for associate professor 

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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 23 Sep. 2024.

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