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Executive Director. Nancy Long (interim) Website. www .aaup .org. The American Association of University Professors ( AAUP) is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States. AAUP membership includes over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations. [1]
Past Harvard University Professors. Paul Farmer (late) [24] – Kolokotrones University Professor. Dale W. Jorgenson (late) – Samuel W. Morris University Professor. Cornel West – Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, resigned chair and left Harvard in 2002 [25] Stephen Owen – James Bryant Conant University Professor.
Indicates a full-time research position (and sometimes part-time) with few or no teaching responsibilities. Research professorships are almost always funded by grants or fellowships apart from the regular university budget; teaching faculty may be funded by either grants or the university, with the latter typically being ultimately responsible to ensure at least a minimum curricula are offered.
There are four faculty ranks: lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. In engineering public universities, a lecturer requires an M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree and high academic standing in the field (e.g. gold medalist, among top 15 students of graduating class).
It considers academic performance, research performance, faculty expertise, resource availability, socially significant activities of graduates, international activities, and international opinion. Each expert independently evaluates these performance indicators for candidate universities. The rating is the average of the expert evaluations.
Two series of rankings were offered: The R-rankings were based on regression analysis. According to the NRC, this analysis was "based on an indirect approach to determining what faculty value in a program" and was done by first asking a sample faculty group to rate a number of programs in their area, and then using a statistical analysis "to ...
This list of Brigham Young University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and located in Provo, Utah, United States. It includes faculty at its related academic colleges ...
Norman Shumway, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique; Lubert Stryer, professor of biology, 2006 National Medal of Science winner, known for micro-array gene chip; Thomas Sudhof, professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine