Professor is a title in the higher education system. Most of them refer to senior teachers and researchers who teach in universities or community colleges, but there is a difference between professors and researchers. Professors have teaching tasks, but researchers don't.
Professor is the highest level of university teachers' titles. The word "professor" in Chinese comes from the meaning of "preaching and teaching to solve doubts", which is the name of academic officials in ancient China, and this position was set up in universities in the Han and Tang Dynasties in China. It has nothing to do with English. Japanese and China people call teachers "professors" in universities.
According to the relevant regulations jointly issued by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Personnel, the positions of college teachers are divided into 13 levels. Professorship is divided into one to seven grades. Among them, full professor positions include grades one to four, and associate professor positions include grades five to seven; Intermediate posts are divided into three grades, namely, eight to ten grades; The junior post is divided into three grades, namely 1 1 to 13.
1, and now all the "professors" have been appointed;
2. "distinguished professor", Gu Mingsi, is a full-time (special) professor and a professor himself;
3. "Visiting professor" is a scholar hired by "Guest Love" to give lectures or give lectures irregularly. I may not be a professor, but a celebrity, official, entrepreneur, inventor, etc.
4. "Part-time professors", between schools, between schools and society, hire professors to give lectures to each other. I am a professor myself. In fact, I just give lectures or do scientific research and take graduate students.
5. "Honorary Professor" is an honorary title awarded to well-known old professors and accomplished old leaders;
6. Most professors are full-time senior titles employed by universities. They are not only attending classes, engaging in scientific research and leading graduate students, but also academic leaders.
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Baidu encyclopedia-professor