re: #303 Obdicut

They’re not even correct in a technical sense. They’re just lying. The only truth is that he wasn’t called professor. He still was a professor. It’s like saying a Master Sergeant and a First Sergeant aren’t both E-8s.

Well, it’s hair-splitting, isn’t it.

I assume that U of C is the same as 99% of US universities in having Full, Associate and Assistant Professor as job titles for tenured faculty. Then they will have adjunct (non-tenured) teaching staff who will be Lecturers. The Senior Lecturer thing is apparently something they use to keep big cheeses in the Law School happy and differentiate them from the rabble.

But generally, all teachers at universities (other than TAs) get described as small-p professors in common speech. As in:

“I’m going to Con. Law. 101 now.”

“Cool - who’s the professor? Is it that hip dude from Hawaii?”