How Do You Become A Professor?

[bednobs]

and is it higher than "Doctor" and is it attached to a job, or once you are a professor you always stay one? is there a qualification attached to it?

[B00]

You need to be a doctorate holder....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor

[Psybbo]

You get a 'Chair', sorry bednobs, in the academic world

[BlackadderV]

A doctorate isn't essential for a professorship, though it's usual. My professor did not have one. Once a professor retires he takes the title of Emeritus Professor.

[tonyav]

The title professor is a grade of appointment in a university.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071227050431AAqTr4G

[Buenchico]

The title 'Professor' is awarded to the head of a faculty within a university. i.e. to the person who 'holds the Chair' of the faculty (or of a specialist area of study within a faculty).

When they retire it's common practice for them to be granted the title of Emeritus Professor.

[bednobs]

so, what about honorary professors, can they use the title, and what about when they retire?

[Buenchico]

People granted honorary titles by universities are entitled (literally!) to use those titles but it would probably be considered 'poor form' for them to do so. For example, Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey and Kylie Minogue all hold honorary doctorates but they don't normally put 'Dr' in front of their names.

On honorary professorship must automatically be for life because (since the recipient doesn't work for the university anyway) there can be no question of 'retirement'.

[Psybbo]

And then there is Emeritus Professor

[jno]

Psybbo, I remember Rupert Murdoch kicked an editor upstairs and called him Emeritus Editor.

When Murdoch was asked what that meant, he said it was Latin - "E means he's out and meritus means he deserves it".

[DTCwordfan]

And the American system is very different - it signifies a senior post - for example, we have Reader and they have Asst. Professor.....

[Zacs-Master]

Well, I got mine from collecting tokens on Golden Graham packets. An now I are one!

[kvalidir]

That's the first likeable thing I've ever heard about Rupert Murdoch Jno:)

[jno]

only one I've ever come across, kvalidir. Apart from him being a communist at university, which must have been fun to see.

[Psybbo]

jno, brilliant!