Although few academics welcome it, the proliferation of short-term, full-time faculty positions — variously framed as visiting or teaching professorships — has become the norm. Nontenure-track ...

What does it mean to be a "visiting" assistant professor? Who invented this rather cruel form of professional limbo? Why are more and more junior scholars beginning — and ending — their academic ...

After more than two years of teaching at an elite liberal arts college, at a recent off-campus meeting, I introduced myself to a new colleague: “I’m Rachel Leventhal-Weiner and I’m a visiting ...

With support from the State of Michigan’s King-Chávez-Park (KCP) program, university departments are invited to apply for financial support to bring visiting professors who provide underrepresented ...

Academic blogs are filled with anti-visiting-professor-position vitriol — many with valid concerns about these precarious positions. Nate Silber, for example, discussing his field, German, in which ...

hold a PhD or terminal degree in the discipline from an accredited college or university or the equivalent thereof, have evident ability or promise as a teacher Title is assigned at time of ...

The Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professors in Law and Public Policy are a diverse group of public sector luminaries who spend a semester at Boston College Law School teaching a ...

Every year dozens of professors come to Harvard from institutions as close as MIT and as far as Australia to hold named and unnamed lectureships, to use the University’s library facilities, or to fill ...

The English Department at Connecticut College seeks a Writer in Residence specializing in prose fiction and/or nonfiction writing for a one-year, full-time teaching position at the rank of Visiting ...

Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH) runs a Visiting Professor Program in 2022–2025. The third round of the program is now open for applications - apply by 31.5.! The mission ...