{"id":6652,"date":"2009-06-16T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2009-06-16T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:54:21","slug":"brits-discuss-adoption-of-american-university-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/06\/brits-discuss-adoption-of-american-university-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits discuss adoption of American university ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v55\/i39\/39titles.htm?utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">Britain&#8217;s Title Wave<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With its lords and ladies, ancient honorifics, and titles both inherited and earned, Britain is a status-conscious realm. The halls of academe are no exception.<\/p>\n<p>At most British universities, the title of professor has traditionally been awarded only at the culmination of an academic journey beginning as a lecturer, progressing through senior and principal lecturer, and, finally, reaching reader. But some universities have remained aloof from common practice, conferring professorships with relative rarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Britain&#8217;s Title Wave With its lords and ladies, ancient honorifics, and titles both inherited and earned, Britain is a status-conscious realm. The halls of academe are no exception. At most British universities, the title of professor has traditionally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/06\/brits-discuss-adoption-of-american-university-ranks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[1288922,1891,4201,1288962,4200,2667],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-faculty","tag-professors","tag-ranks","tag-tenure-promotion","tag-titles","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}