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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the Americans: What do you call a 'real' Professor? As in, someone with several decades of academic experience who brings in a lot of funding and leads various groups, etc. Is it not a position here?[/quote]

It is a position in the US, but in this thread you can see examples of people who have no respect for university professors.

You call them Professor.  Dr. might be OK in some circumstances.  [/quote]

But then how do you distinguish them from the postgrad students or just random other industry lecturers? You can't just call them all professors, surely.

What I'm referring to is the idea that a "professor" on DCUM (and apparently in US universities) doesn't even need a PhD. That's impossible in many other countries.

Where I'm from, you're basically a student until you have a PhD (even if you teach some classes - although it's very rare that they'd have a non-PhD leading a course in any decent university, usually they'd just be TAs) at which point you're considered an academic and only after many years and a very strong publication record plus funding achievements would you be even able to apply for a Professorial position. Many (most?) professors have also completed their habilitation.

It's fascinating to me that I could walk into a US university tomorrow with my PhD and teach a class and everyone would need to call me professor :) I might need to put that on my list to do one day, just for fun... from the sound of this thread, I'd get some strange looks when they find out I have a doctorate but would prefer to be called "professor"![/quote]

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