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Alben Barkley (1900C, 1949H), 35th Vice President of the United States. Iconic golfer Bobby Jones (1929JD) Baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell (1940C) Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and University Distinguished Professor. Salman Rushdie, iconic novelist and University Distinguished Professor.
Distinguished (or similar) Professor (other such titles of special distinction vary by institution) Professor ("Full Professor", i.e., the destination of the "tenure track," upon exhausting all promotions other than those of special distinction) Associate Professor (a mid-level, usually tenured, faculty member, which can lead to "full" professor)
Launched. May 1999; 25 years ago. ( 1999-05) RateMyProfessors.com ( RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as ...
The 2011 survey, the first poll asking UK academics to rate American presidents, was conducted by the United States Presidency Centre (USPC) at the Institute for the Study of the Americas (located in the University of London's School of Advanced Study). This polled the opinion of British specialists in American history and politics to assess ...
United States Navy ratings are general enlisted occupations used by the U.S. Navy since the 18th century, which denote the specific skills and abilities of the sailor. Each naval rating has its own specialty badge, which is worn on the left sleeve of dress uniforms of enlisted personnel. U.S. naval ratings are the equivalent of military ...
Academic tenure in North America. Academic tenure in the United States and Canada is a contractual right that grants a teacher or professor a permanent position of employment at an academic institution such as a university or school. [1] Tenure is intended to protect teachers from dismissal without just cause, and to allow development of ...
Administrative ranks. Rektor – rector / chancellor / president / head of university. Prorektor – prorector / vice-chancellor / vice president / assistant head of university. Dekan – dean / head of faculty or school at the university. Prodekan – vice-dean / assistant head of faculty or school at the university.
Mark Berger, B.A. 1964 – recipient of four Academy Awards for sound mixing and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley; John Dykstra – staff researcher (c. 1973-1975) at UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, which developed computer-controlled cameras and associated technologies that were later adapted for the groundbreaking special effects in Star Wars and later films ...