associate professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor
associate professorship noun

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Welch Suggs, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Georgia, noted the study was done over a period of growth in higher education. — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026 Malu Gatto, an associate professor of Latin American politics at University College London, said the gender gap widened after Jair Bolsonaro emerged in 2018, as men gravitated toward the right and women became more supportive of the Workers’ Party. — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 Taha Choukhmane, an associate professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has been studying outcomes when people turn to chatbots for financial advice. — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 23 Oct. 2026 Author Colin Dickey, an associate professor at National University, has developed a specialty in such grisly discoveries. — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for associate professor

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First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of associate professor was in 1819

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