Re:Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?
by Fomite on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:14PM
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"In Canada, an Adjunct Professor is unpaid, but actually somewhat prestigious. It is a recognition of your abilities in a field and might be given to someone in industry who collaborates with a researcher at the university (for example)."
That was originally how it was used in the U.S. too. "Someone who needs a non-permanent affiliation with the University to teach some classes" - usually someone from industry or the community, etc. whose expertise was valuable to the educational mission.
The modern version is...sort of depressing.
Re:Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?
by chrisseaton on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:45PM
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> Off topic, but I always do a bit of a double-take at how Americans use "Adjunct Professor."
I think in the US, almost anyone with a job at a college is a 'professor'. You see 'professors' in their late 20s or early 30s.
In Canada, an Adjunct Professor is unpaid, but actually somewhat prestigious. It is a recognition of your abilities in a field and might be given to someone in industry who collaborates with a researcher at the university (for example).