query re: american education titles
Dec. 12th, 2009 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperAt what point does someone earn the right to be called 'professor'? I've seen it applied to high school teachers in the US, which makes bugger all sense to me.
In England, 'professor' is normally only used as the title of someone at the head of a *university* department. (unless it's a college of music, where it can be the title of a tutor) You have to earn that fucker. Any other time you hear it, it's normally a teasing nickname.
So..er... what is the American usage?
In other news, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is a work of inspired lunacy. and is proof that if you put Christopher Plummer in a horribly disreputable beard and outfit, he finally stops being someone I fancy in a horribly guilt-ridden fashion.
In England, 'professor' is normally only used as the title of someone at the head of a *university* department. (unless it's a college of music, where it can be the title of a tutor) You have to earn that fucker. Any other time you hear it, it's normally a teasing nickname.
So..er... what is the American usage?
In other news, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is a work of inspired lunacy. and is proof that if you put Christopher Plummer in a horribly disreputable beard and outfit, he finally stops being someone I fancy in a horribly guilt-ridden fashion.
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Date: 2009-12-12 02:07 pm (UTC)I am amused to find that in the USA I might well be deemed an adjunct professor.
(You certainly don't have to be the head of a department to be a professor in the UK; I am working for a team of three professors within the Dept of Law at Queen Mary, and we have several others in the department.)