时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(四)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


Not all college teachers are full professors. Many are assistant or adjunct professors. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss academic titles in American higher education.
 
Adjunct professor Charles Varani teaching at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon, in October of 2005


Professors usually have doctorate 1 degrees. But college students may be taught by instructors 3 who have not completed their doctorate degrees. After that, the instructor 2 could become an assistant professor. Assistant professors do not have tenure 4.


A professor with tenure cannot be easily dismissed. Such appointments are permanent. Those hired with the understanding they will seek tenure are said to be "on the tenure track." Assistant professor is the first job on this path.


Assistant professors have five to seven years to get tenure. They must teach, carry out research and publish their findings. Other professors then study the work. If tenure is denied, the person usually has a year to find another job. An assistant professor who receives tenure becomes an associate professor and may later be appointed a full professor.


Professors on the tenure track teach classes, advise students and carry out research. They also serve on committees and take part in community activities.


Other teachers are not expected to do all this. They are not on a tenure track. They are called adjuncts.


An adjunct professor is hired to teach for a limited time, usually one semester. Adjunct professors may have a doctorate. But they receive lower pay than those on the tenure track and have no job security.


The American Association of University Professors says sixty-eight percent of all teacher appointments at American colleges today are adjuncts. College officials say one reason is low budgets. Another is having the freedom to change teachers as courses become more or less popular. They also say part-time adjuncts can provide real world experience for their students.


But the AAUP and other college officials say too many adjuncts mean lower educational quality. They say adjuncts do not have the time or support to help students outside class. And they say fewer tenure track positions mean fewer people to work with students, create new courses and serve on committees.


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Transcripts 5, MP3s and podcasts of our programs are at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Shirley Griffith.



n.(大学授予的)博士学位
  • He hasn't enough credits to get his doctorate.他的学分不够取得博士学位。
  • Where did she do her doctorate?她在哪里攻读博士?
n.指导者,教员,教练
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
指导者,教师( instructor的名词复数 )
  • The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
  • He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份,被邀请到主席台上。
n.终身职位;任期;(土地)保有权,保有期
  • He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
  • Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
aerobiotic
aethiopis
aging periods
aluminum-air cell
American merlin
angariation
antenna complex
bahaization
bank of supporter
casual-dress day, casual day
characteristic vector
clavate process
combretum pilosum roxb.
computing statement
conductive salinometer
conidio-
constant input
coriaceum
decade oscillator
diamondback turtle
diurnal filariasis
drawleg
dynamic programming model
ecological boomerang
exteriorly
failure detection
falling rocks
go over like nine pins
gonecystis
great-great-
group 2 facsimile machine
harold lloyds
higher laws
i will follow
iceycle
immersion lens
in all
jaagsiepte jaagsiekte
jaffeite
jean-mary
Jebsen Point
jobmaster
kdj
lattice cell
lepra maculosa
lituites
lyricalness
m. scalenus medius
make heavy wiather
manette
mid-chrome yellow paint
minehunting sonar
mortifications
mycolyl
nanotubules
Nkoyé
nonclassical carbocation
onna mai (japan)
patty cake
PETALICHTHYOMORPHA
plasma thromboplastin
polar-bear
pollen chamber
pressed grape
previllous embryo
product metric
professional mannerism
program uncertainty
proportionality limit
puckishly
pyrilamine
q-analyses
quinoxalinedione
recoil spectrum
red and black vertical stripes buoy
relayings
scrapable
seppanen
sheepcote
shunt-regulated amplifier
skiffles
soild runoff
sond
steel-bonded carbide products
Stegolophodon
structured program
sueos
swift-handedness
swung for the fences
system integration test
table feed
tarsias
tetovo
tetramannose
thisan
titty juice
to sneeze
trisynocotyledonous
tubercle
unfragmentable
uranoscopus tosae
Wankel rotary compressor