Meaning of professoriate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Professors considered as a group or body.
2. The office of a professor.
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Examples

“A satirical work⟳, published in 1721, speaks of the chairs which were allowed to exist⟳ as habitually filled by persons utterly incompetent; and though we cannot tell⟳ how far to believe⟳ its details, something of the kind must be supposed to have⟳ taken place⟳ in order⟳ to account for the discredit into which the Professoriate fell, and from which it can scarcely be said to have⟳ recovered.”

“[…] at that moment the whole professoriate was absorbed in one of those great educational crises which from time to time shake⟳ a university to its base⟳.”

“Technological Change⟳ and Professional Control⟳ in the Professoriate.”

“Did these interactions, taken as a whole, reinforce Kennedy’s willingness to reach⟳ liberal outcomes in a series of high-profile cases? No less a judge⟳ of character than his colleague Scalia thought so, hinting in writing that Kennedy’s leftward bent came from a desire to please⟳ the professoriate.”

“1899, George Francis FitzGerald, Lord Kelvin: Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 1846-1899, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Biographical Sketch⟳, p. 6, A generation that has been reared on the ideas involved in the conservation of energy can hardly understand⟳ the position of science when Lord Kelvin began his professoriate.”

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