emerita
- proper noun
- /ˈɛmərɪtə/
- Specialized
- Noddings earned her PhD in education at Stanford University, where she is Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita.
Examples
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K. Patricia Cross, Professor of Higher Education, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley.
Academic text (2005) -
Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach.
Academic text (2018) -
Renee C. Fox is the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and a Fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Academic text (1999) -
Catherine L. Albanese is J.F. Rowny Professor Emerita in Comparative Religions and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Academic text (2010) -
By Margaret A. Miller, President Emerita of AAHE, executive editor of Change magazine, director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, and director of the National Forum on College-Level Learning.
Academic text (2005) -
In 1984, according to Martha Rogers, nursing theorist and Professor Emerita at New York University, there was limited progress in support of an educationally sound and socially motivated system of higher education in nursing proportionate with changing times and human need.
Academic text (2005) -
Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach.
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Noddings earned her PhD in education at Stanford University, where she is Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita.
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Angela Davis, Political Activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Emerita is also the scientific name for a small sand crab; the name is a Latin word, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of the crab 'retiring' or digging into the sand like someone who steps back from work but keeps a place of honor.