In March , the Board of Trustees adopted the following statement of qualification for the honorary title professor emeritus:. Any member of the professorial staff who retires after ten years full-time equivalency in the rank of university professor, professor, or associate professor and who has rendered distinguished and meritorious service to the University, may be appointed Professor Emeritus by the President after recommendation by the members of the particular department and the dean of the college or school faculty to which the retiring member belonged.
Use of the title is limited to those who have held tenure at Cornell. Emeritus status is not available for other academic titles. Administrative and executive service is possible within the title, as well as teaching, research, and other academic responsibilities. In addition to such special teaching and administrative assignments, post-retirement research appointments permit individual retired faculty members to carry on sponsored research using university facilities.
Skip to main content. These three simultaneous trends — the quick evolution of the title, the broadening pool of eligible candidates, and the growing consequence of what it confers — are leading some observers to call for more agreement among Canadian universities on how to award the emeritus status and what it means.
Others argue that each university is unique, and standardization would mean dismissing the individual history and heritage of each institution. Moreover, who would be responsible for creating and enforcing national, universal standards? Is it politicians? Weedon of Western. With the trend towards faculty working later in life, Dr. Turk says the solution is a guaranteed, basic level of institutional support for professors on retirement.
That would leave the emeritus title as a purely honorific designation, perhaps closer to its original meaning in academic circles. Tim Johnson is a Toronto-based writer who specializes in education, social and political issues, human interest and travel.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I was glad to read this article. At my university, there is no support for Emeriti. It is impossible to use copying and printing facilities. There is no common space. I retired 9 years ago and was designated Emeritus.
Since then, I have authored 5 books,countless book chapters and articles, encyclopedia articles, book reviews, plenary addresses and conference papers, But who is counting, eh? In all instances, I acknowledge the University. The only informal recognition comes from the 2 secretarial aides in the department, but I feel sometimes like a ghost moving about on the campus. There oought to be a movement towards a more concrete and viable recognition of Emeriti.
University Affairs moderates all comments according to the following guidelines. If you've surmised from these qualities that the word is Latin in origin, you are correct.
Emeritus , which is the Latin past participle of the verb emereri , meaning "to serve out one's term," was originally used to describe soldiers who had completed their duty. By the early 18th century, English speakers were using emeritus as an adjective to refer to professors who had retired from office. The word eventually came to be applied to other professions where a retired member may continue to hold a title in an honorary capacity.
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