Professor: After at least five years, an associate professor can apply for a promotion to the rank of a professor. The decision is based on the scholarly contributions of the applicant, in terms of publications and theses and dissertations supervised.
Academic duties of associate professors and professors are nearly the same as assistant professors. However, only associate professors and professors can assume senior administrative posts like a department chair, a college vice dean, and a college dean.
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“All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the Worlds University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“At about that time I was once sitting at my place and whisperingit was naughty, I knowwith my neighbor. Then you, Herr Professor Rudner, got up from your desk, came calmly down the aisle to me: Did you speak? and slapped me smack in the face. And Ithe fury is inside me to this dayI didnt hit back. Such were the methods of objectivity.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)
“Youll admit theres always the possibility of some employee becoming disgruntled over some fancied injustice. Dissatisfaction always leads to temptation. Theres always purchasers for valuable secrets.”
—Joseph ODonnell. Clifford Sanforth. Donald Jordan, Murder by Television, trying to bribe Perry into revealing Professor Houghlands secret (1935)