professorship
n.the position or title of a professor at a university. It can also mean the time you spend in that role.
n.the office, title, or tenure of a professor; the period of time during which someone holds such a position.
“She was awarded a professorship in history.”
“After twenty years of teaching, he was finally granted a full professorship at the university.”
“The university established a new professorship in environmental science to attract leading researchers and fund innovative fieldwork across the globe.”
“In 2023, at age 38, he had been appointed to a professorship in sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, becoming the youngest Black professor in the institution’s 800-year history.”
“Yet almost as soon as he began his professorship at Cambridge’s Jesus College, the whispers began.”