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professoriate

professoriate

1 8.2
All the teachers who work at a college or university
  • noun
  • /prəˌfɛsəˈrɪət/
  • Formal
translation icon : profesorado
  • But in the liberal version, more common to the professoriate, correct images are distinguished by their complex form.
  • college professoriate
  • members of the professoriate
  • community college professoriate

Examples

  • Sometimes research about the community college faculty appears as part of a general study of the U.S. professoriate.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The professoriate plays a crucial role in shaping the academic policies of the university.

  • Both American Studies and International Studies have positioned themselves within the professoriate by similar concerns.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The huge expansion of the college population in the decades after World War II also created a new professoriate.

    Academic text (2007)

  • So what, in principle, is the argument against education in support of the new politics of the advanced professoriate?

    Academic text (1990)

  • The lack of change in the proportions of women in higher ranks was not due to a static professoriate.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Paths to the professoriate: strategies for enriching the preparation of future faculty.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Therefore, the professoriate will have to learn new strategies, redesign their courses, and rethink their assessment practices.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The credibility of Catholics in the professoriate, in the view of their Protestant colleagues, became a neuralgic issue.

    Academic text (2010)

  • The aging faculty of the baby-boom generation that now fills the senior ranks of the professoriate soon will be eligible for retirement.

    Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

professorate
vsprofessoriate
  • Formal
1 8.0

A group of university teachers or the job of being a university teacher

is the collective body at an institution rather than the job title
professoriat
vsprofessoriate
  • Formal
9.2

The group of senior teachers and researchers who work at a university

is the specific collective body within one college or university

Surface Forms

professoriate singular
professorates plural

Morphology

professoriate = professor (semi-transparent) = professor + iate

Formed from 'professor' plus the rare suffix '-iate' meaning a collective body; the relation to 'professor' is clear but the suffix is not productive for many learners.

Etymology

The word professoriate comes from professor, which is related to profess meaning 'to declare' and later 'to teach' in public. The ending turns the job name into the whole group, so professoriate means the whole group of professors at a college or university.