A report on Professor and List of academic ranks

Albert Einstein as a professor
The Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was one of the earliest recorded professors.
Toni Morrison, Emeritus Professor at Princeton University.
Salary of professors, as reported in the 2005 report the DHV. Bars are for assistant professor, associate professor and full professor, respectively.
Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Final Problem"

In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor".

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Albert Einstein as a professor

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Lord Grenville as Chancellor of the University of Oxford; painting by William Owen

Chancellor (education)

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Leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.

Leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.

Lord Grenville as Chancellor of the University of Oxford; painting by William Owen
The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten, in procession at Encaenia, 2009
William Smyth, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford; painting by Gilbert Jackson

Examples of these include the appointment of new professors and docents.

In deemed universities and institutes of national importance, the head of the institution is either called director general or director, the latter designation being more commonly used in academic terms in the subcontinent.

Reader (academic rank)

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Appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship.

Appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship.

In the traditional hierarchy of British and other Commonwealth universities, reader (and principal lecturer in the new universities) are academic ranks above senior lecturer and below professor, recognising a distinguished record of original research.

Reader is similar to a professor without a chair, similar to the distinction between professor extraordinarius and professor ordinarius at some European universities, professor and chaired professor in Hong Kong and "professor name" (or associate professor) and chaired professor in Ireland.

The School of Athens, fresco by Raphael (1509–1510), of an idealized academy

Academy

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Institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

Institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

The School of Athens, fresco by Raphael (1509–1510), of an idealized academy
Nalanda, ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India from 427 to 1197
The modern Academy of Athens, next to the University of Athens and the National Library forming 'the Trilogy', designed by Schinkel's Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture.
Åbo Akademi, an academy building designed by Charles Bassi, was built on 1833 in Turku, Finland.
A map outlining the academies overseeing education in France.
Professors and newly conferred doctors of philosophy posing at a Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduation.

In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor although in recent decades a growing number of institutions include librarians in the category of "academic staff".

In the United Kingdom, various titles of academic rank are used, typically research associate, research fellow (also senior research fellow and principal research fellow), lecturer (also senior lecturer and principal lecturer), reader, and professor.