adjunct professor

noun

1. a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time.

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjunct professor¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

“Those early kind of signals can be helpful for understanding the progression of the fungus, of where it’s getting to,” said Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conservation International and an adjunct professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

From Los Angeles Times

Mead Valley, a majority Latino community of about 20,500 people, already has 2,000 square feet of warehouses per person, including existing and approved warehouses and those under environmental review, according to a data analysis by Susan Phillips, director of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College, and Mike McCarthy, an adjunct professor and data scientist at the college.

From Los Angeles Times

Gerald Cook, an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is a former commercial pilot and flight operations manager who flew for Spirit from 1999 to 2010.

From Slate

Getting enough rest is an important factor in school success, said Alvord, adjunct professor at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

From Los Angeles Times

“While Walz has governed Minnesota as a progressive, in Congress he represented a Republican-leaning district and was known as a relative moderate,” Christopher J. Devine, an associate professor of political science at the University of Dayton in Ohio, and Kyle C. Kopko, an adjunct professor of political science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, noted Tuesday in an opinion article in The Times.

From Los Angeles Times