Professeur attaché à l'Ecole de...

English translation: (Guest) Lecturer or Professor at

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French term or phrase:	*Professeur attaché* à l'Ecole de...**
English translation:	(Guest) Lecturer or Professor at
Entered by:	Jocelyne S

10:16 Aug 7, 2008

French to English translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy / Job Title

French term or phrase: Professeur *attaché* à l'Ecole de...

On a CV: "Professeur *attaché* à l'Ecole de ..."

I'm not sure whether this is a "part-time" or "associate" professor (or something else).

If it's "part-time" can someone suggest a classier way of saying it in a university context?

Thanks in advance,
Jocelyne

Jocelyne S KudoZ activity Questions: 162 (none open) Answers: 563 France
Local time: 16:42

Professor at / from ...

Explanation:
Professor at the University of ... OR a professor from the University of ... When I see "attaché", I see the professor as
one who is fit to be tied ... LOL

Selected response from:

Jean-Claude Gouin
Canada
Local time: 10:42

Grading comment

Thank you very much to all who helped out on this question. I gave my client several options and we decided to go with Professor in the end. I have also added "Guest" in brackets to the glossary entry.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

Guest lecturer at...

translatol

3 +3

Professor at / from ...

Jean-Claude Gouin

3 +3

adjunct

marca

4 +1

posh ways of saying part-time in a university: fractional, guest, visiting

Melissa McMahon

working at

saraja

4 -1

Associate Professor

Drmanu49

Sessional instructor

Diane Partenio (X)

3 -1

Assistant professor

mimi 254

Summary of reference entries provided

Rachel Fell

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

Professor at / from ...

Explanation:
Professor at the University of ... OR a professor from the University of ... When I see "attaché", I see the professor as
one who is fit to be tied ... LOL

Jean-Claude Gouin
Canada
Local time: 10:42
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 28

Grading comment

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Sébastien Ricciardi

2 mins

-> Merci Sébastien ...

neutral

Drmanu49: This could mean full time which is not the case.

7 mins

-> Merci Emmanuel de prendre le temps pour donner votre opinion ...

agree

B D Finch: We don't know that it isn't full-time, but if not then the simple addition of "part-time" would solve it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_rank#France

20 mins

-> Thank you Ms. Finch for your fine suggestion. Full time or part time, s/he is still at the employ of the university in question ... No?

agree

writeaway: why over translate? This is a wysiwyg translation of the Fr (what you see is what you get) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

35 mins

-> Thank you for agreeing with me, writeaway ...

agree

Helen Shiner: This would be my solution. Professors may be 'attached' to several institutions at the same time but do not generally feel the need to declare the terms of their appointments in their titles. It is sometimes hard to find out just where they are based!

39 mins

-> Thank you Helen. S/he may be working part of the time in an industry related to his teaching field ...

disagree

cchat: See the notes by JS and by translatol. In this context, I think professor is a 'faux-ami'.

3 hrs

-> Merci pour votre opinion ...

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Assistant professor

Explanation:
/

mimi 254
Local time: 15:42
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 53

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Associate Professor

Explanation:
... Pellegrini, Assistant professor, LaBRI Perronnin Florence, Perronnin, Associate Professor Perruquetti Wilfrid, Perruquetti, Professor, École Centrale de ...
ralyx.inria.fr/2007/staff-list.txt?category=Enseignant&theme=NUM - 38k -

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Note added at 21 mins (2008-08-07 10:37:38 GMT)
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Arnaud Tonnelé - Professeur attaché à Grenoble Ecole de Management. Négociations et aspects multiculturels, Marie-France Derderian - Responsable pédagogique ...
www.grenoble-em.com/default.aspx?rub=756 - 36k

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 16:42
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 316

54 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

adjunct

Explanation:
I'm not sure if this term is appropriate in your context, but it's a quite common US term for anyone who teaches courses but is not otherwise attached to the institution.

marca
United States
Local time: 10:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

posh ways of saying part-time in a university: fractional, guest, visiting

Explanation:
I like "adjunct", but above are suggestions for posh ways of saying part-time: the professorship may be 'fractional' and if the position is short term, the person may be a "visiting" or "guest" professor.

Nb. it is essential the target audience is US for the term 'professor' be appropriate here. "Lecturer" would be the generic non-US equivalent.

Melissa McMahon
Australia
Local time: 00:42
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 56

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Guest lecturer at...

Explanation:
This title is very elegant, and is the English term used by the Geneva École de Management for its 'intervenants extérieurs'.

Professeur/professor runs the risk of being a 'faux ami', because 'professor' is a high-ranking title in Anglo-Saxon universities, whereas 'professeur' is of much more general application in French.

Reference: http://www.grenoble-em.com/271-human-resources-2.aspx

translatol
Local time: 15:42
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

cchat: Definitely the best solution so far, as being most likely to fit JS's context note. But I presume you mean Grenoble and not Geneva, from your reference ;-).

21 mins

-> Many thanks, cchat, and yes I did mean G....

agree

liz askew

56 mins

-> Thank you, liz

agree

Terry Gwenn

4 hrs

-> Thank you, kobay.

agree

Aude Sylvain

5 hrs

-> Merci, Aude.

neutral

Helen Shiner: I would be careful here. It is possible to be invited to give one lecture in the UK and be termed a guest lecturer at a particularly university. Please see my comments on 1045's answer./Exactly. I'm sure the asker will sort this out.

9 hrs

-> Yes, I can see this. It's a hard one because of differing academic terminologies. You do really have to know the readership: see, for example, Diane's Canadian answer.

neutral

Melissa McMahon: I think I already offered this option, and explained the 'professor' problem?

19 hrs

-> Yes, it *is* in your answer but along with other things, so I tried to specify. In N. America, 'professor' is the popular word for all university teachers, but formally it's one of the academic ranks rising from assistant professor to full professor.

5 hrs confidence:

Sessional instructor

Explanation:
I'm not sure who the target readership is but in Canada, this is the term that is used for a professor without tenure (alas, a growing percentage of university faculty in this country...) which I think is what we're talking about here.

Definition from Answers.com entry on "professor", which you may find useful..

Sessional instructor

A sessional instructor is a person, usually a Ph.D.-holder, who is hired to teach at a university or college on a limited contract, often for a single term. Considerable controversy surrounds the practice of hiring sessionals, since they are increasingly making up a large proportion of instructors at North American universities, where they earn considerably less than other instructors and have no job security.

Reference: http://www.answers.com/topic/professor

Diane Partenio (X)
Canada
Local time: 10:42

6 hrs confidence:

working at

Explanation:
affecté à/travaillant à

Example sentence(s):

Je ne crois pas qu'il s'agit de "part-time"

saraja
Mauritius
Local time: 18:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French

Reference comments

22 hrs

Reference

Reference information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7453292.stm
http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/arthur_good...
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/archives/research/Tim Cook appo...

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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