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  • noun See professoriate.

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  • noun Professors in general.

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  • Although many of its contributors are card-carrying members of the professoriat, a significant number are artists and some are "independent scholars," a discreet euphemism for defrocked academics; trust-fund autodidacts who've disappeared down the rabbit hole of their obscure obsessions; intellectual omnivores with a magpie's eye and a hummingbird's attention span who Want to Know Everything About Everything (a cardinal sin in an age of intellectual niche marketing).

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Ring wing US President Richard Nixon supported right wing Pakistani President Yahya Khan, who was responsible for the killings of almost the entirety of the professoriat and intellectuals in East Pakistan [now Bangladesh].

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism 2010

  • The professoriat that needs to dress well shares a certain property — their Y chromosome.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Peggy 2008

  • Ring wing US President Richard Nixon supported right wing Pakistani President Yahya Khan, who was responsible for the killings of almost the entirety of the professoriat and intellectuals in East Pakistan now Bangladesh.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism 2010

  • The professoriat that needs to dress well shares a certain property — their Y chromosome.

    Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts? Peggy 2008

  • I compare the left-right confrontation over the last several decades as — we enter the ring prepared to fight by Marquis of Queensbury rules, while our opponent, who has already bought off the ref and judges media, hollywood and professoriat, climbs in with a baseball bat with nails imbedded in it.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Anti-Sotomayor: 2009

  • They might among their fellow students, but not among the professoriat.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives, Political Correctness and the Academy 2009

  • American liberal/progressive politics overall has long tended to a form of liberal internationalism that matched up with the internationalist values of the international law professoriat.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Idealism and Realism in International Law and Relations: 2009

  • Cato The Elder: The reason T-25 universities are rated where they are is not because of the superlative teaching qualities of their professoriat, but much more because of the superlative peer quality they offer to prospective students, among other things.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Merit-Based Pay Cuts for Academics? 2009

  • The reason T-25 universities are rated where they are is not because of the superlative teaching qualities of their professoriat, but much more because of the superlative peer quality they offer to prospective students, among other things.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Merit-Based Pay Cuts for Academics? 2009

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