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 From there, as Jeremy A. Weingarten, MD, director of the Center for Sleep Disorders at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, tells SELF: Tolerance can also become a part of that equation. Ali Finney, SELF, 19 Apr. 2024 Norma Coe, an associate professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the research, said some of the rates were worse than general Medicaid treatment figures, suggesting that some barriers could be specific to parents. Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024 Phoebe Stapleton, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Rutgers University, who co-authored the bottled water study, told PEOPLE. Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024 Elyssa Ford is associate professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University. TIME, 12 Apr. 2024 Meet the Expert Jason Steffen is an associate professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2024 Perez is an associate professor and director of Ethnic Studies at CSUSM. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024 Sarah Shannon is an associate professor of sociology and the director of the Criminal Justice Studies Program at the University of Georgia. Sarah Shannon, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024 Hidalgo is a a Spanish instructor at Tarrant County College and Crutchfield is an associate professor of social work at UT Arlington. Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024

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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 Apr. 2024.

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