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- From: LMEBGO@kiera.ericsson.se (Bengt G{llmo, L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden)
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- Subject: Re: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 07:19:09 -0600
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- ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
-
- >In any case, 'professor' clearly has a much broader range of meaning here
- >than in Europe, incuding in some contexts the equivalent of a European
- >lecturer and in others a European 'professor'.
-
- There is no such thing as a 'European professor' (and, in fact, almost
- no 'European' anything). The concept of 'professor' in Italy differs
- at least as much from that in Britain as does the Canadian concept.
- In Italy, as I understand it, 'professore' means 'teacher', nothing more.
-
- As for Sweden, a department, e.g. the dept of Physics, will have a fixed
- (or very slowly changing) number of professor chairs. A person is
- appointed to one of these chairs for life, i.e. until retirement.
- Unfortunately, some professors will make their contributions in their
- first 10 years or so, and then just occupy their chairs until retirement.
- What Americans call assistant or associate professors are not professors
- in Sweden, except when they translate their titles for an American.
-
- There is one type of professor other than a full professor, however.
- This is what we call an 'adjunct professor'. He (I don't know of any
- she) serves as a professor typically 20% of his time. The rest, he
- spends in industry. The university appoints him, and requires the
- same qualifications as a full professor, but industry usually pays
- 100% of his salary. The number of adjunct professor chairs is not
- fixed. From industry's point of view, funding an adjunct professor
- (and preferably supplying the person) is a good way of getting
- something started in a neglected area. In 5 years time, hopefully,
- the university will have been able to create a new chair for a full
- professor.
-
- Bengt
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