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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason you go with Professor rather than Dr is because many instructors  only hold Masters or are just working on their doctorate - so should not be called Dr. 
Dr. is definitely more prestigious than Professor.   Just ask a lawyer, they go crazy that they can't be called Dr unless they have a PhD in law.

The default should be Professor, never Mrs. or Mr. Generally, what you will se is undergrads use Professor/Dr and switching to first names in grad school

I taught in various institutions of various levels for 2 decades.  I went by my first name because it fits my teaching style, what I taught, and because when I first started teaching I was 25 and was often teaching students older than myself.  I never really pushed back against students if they preferred Dr or Professor, only if they called me Mrs. x or Miss x.  However, at times I would have students that grew up in lower income areas where the default for women (regardless of their age) was Miss, I decided it was not my place to correct them. If I had the same students as upperclassmen, they had made the switch.  The same with people on the GI bill, nearly impossible for them to call me anything but ma'am the first two years. [/quote]

Interesting. In the countries I lived and worked in, it was the opposite - Professor was always a coveted title (and actual position) held by only the most senior academics. Everyone else was 'just' Dr. (It was very rare for a non-PhD to be leading a course in the universities I have experience in, most of the time they were just TAs who assisted, and they were referred to by their first name.)[/quote]

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