Visiting Professor definition

Visiting Professor means a faculty member from another educational, industrial, or governmental institution who helps carry out SOU’s teaching, research, or service commitments. See Faculty Bylaws on Academic Faculty, section 5.100 for details regarding these temporary appointments.
Visiting Professor means a Professor invited by the Executive Council for a fixed term of years to be appointed by the Executive Council for a short term stipulated in the contract.
Visiting Professor means a full-time faculty member appointed at any rank for a single semester or a single academic year in order to fulfill some special academic need or provide some special enhancement to an existing program. Any such appointment may be made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article XX, Section B.

Examples of Visiting Professor in a sentence

  • He was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Essex, UK in 2004.


More Definitions of Visiting Professor

Visiting Professor. A terminal degree from an accredited institution in the academic or professional discipline to be taught. Demonstrated potential to fulfill the applicable evaluation criteria. Understanding of the teaching and advising process and the application of teaching and advising strategies to adult learners. Eight (8) years of appropriate professional experience in the discipline to be taught including six (6) years of college or university teaching in the discipline to be taught. Additional professional advancement. The application of the foregoing criteria shall not result in a reduction in the rank of any unit member who, having taught in the Program of Continuing Education in any semester or session during the Academic Year 2008-2009, shall be appointed to teach in any semester or session subsequent to the execution date. Nothing in the foregoing criteria shall be deemed to prohibit the University from considering an individual's demonstrated continuing scholarship, including contributions to the content and pedagogy of the discipline as evidenced by participation in and contributions to the improvement and development of academic programs or academic services at an institution of higher education, or, where applicable, by artistic or other creative activities; membership or participation in or contributions to professional organizations and societies, research as demonstrated by published or unpublished work or relevant graduate study, including work toward the terminal degree for those without the terminal degree; or relevant post graduate study for those with the terminal degree, or, for the professional, continuing study or current knowledge of said unit member's professional field. The University may also consider other professional activities which by way of example shall include contributions to the professional growth and development of the Program of Graduate and Continuing Education, or, in the case of the professional hired to teach who is not a full-time college or university faculty member, evidence of continued growth and development in the candidate's professional field.
Visiting Professor means an individual who is on leave from another institution and who is appointed to the University for a period of up to two (2) academic years to collaborate with faculty members at the University. These appointments are not subject to the MUN-MUNFA Collective Agreement.
Visiting Professor means a person with qualifications provided under Part 1 subsection 3.2.1, and appointed by Senate in accordance with these Guidelines.
Visiting Professor means a title conferred by the University on a person who
Visiting Professor means a Professor hosted in the residences.
Visiting Professor means a professor, a researcher or an expert with proven scientific qualification, belonging to a foreign university, institution or organization.
Visiting Professor means an Italian or foreign scholar of high scientific standing belonging to a foreign university or institution, called upon to carry out teaching activities, including examinations and degree examinations, as part of the courses of study.Visiting Researcher means an Italian or foreign scholar of high scientific standing belonging to a foreign university or body, called upon to carry out research activities;Visiting Scholar means a PhD student, fellowship student, or foreign scholar who intends to spend a period of study and/or research at IULM. Art. 2 – Invitation procedures1. Proposals for issuing an invitation to a Visiting Professor must be made by a tenured professor or researcher from the University and forwarded to the Dean of the Faculty to which they belong. Once the proposal has been approved by the Faculty Council, it shall be forwarded to the Academic Senate and the Board of Governors for the passing of the required resolutions.Proposals for issuing an invitation to a Visiting Researcher must be made by a tenured professor or researcher from the University and forwarded to the Director of the Department to which they belong. Once the proposal has been approved by the Department Council, the Director shall forward it to the Academic Senate and the Board of Governors for the passing of the required resolutions.Proposals for issuing an invitation to a Visiting Scholar must be forwarded to the Academic Senate by the Faculty Council or Department in the case of fellowships, and by the Teaching Board of a PhD course in the case of a PhD student.2. The proposals approved by the competent bodies must be submitted to the Academic Senate by 28 February and 30 September each year. The relative resolutions shall be passed by the Academic Senate in March and October and the Visiting Academics may begin their period of residence at the University- subject to conferment of the appointment or, in the case of the Visiting Scholar, of the letter of invitation- within 12 months of the aforementioned resolutions.