Royal baby on the way!!! UK, prepare for your future sovereign!

Peck of Arabia said:
He was president from 1981-1996.

I, also, have no idea what a President Emeritus is, or does. Maybe some kind of figurehead? A name recognition thing?
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Adding emeritus to a title means that the person no longer holds it and no longer possesses the responsibilities of management that go along with it, but retains the use of the title solely as an honorific.

For instance, a professor emeritus would no longer take up a spot on the department org chart or regularly teach classes (not that a full tenured professor would regularly teach classes either trololo), but would still be referred to as 'professor' as an indication of her importance in academia.
 
Dachs said:
not that a full tenured professor would regularly teach classes either trololo
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I thought that was half the point to pursuing full professor status and why peer approval is such a petty politiking mess. It's basically a pay raise to dink around without much in the way of hard deadlines for half the year and then gripe about students and grading for the approximately 7 hours a week you have to actually show up the other half the year.
 
Depends on the university's tenure requirements. Somebody like Niall "Fire His Ass" Ferguson of Yale can churn out terrible pop-history books every year or so, make constant appearances on CNN as an Expert Commentator, and rely on adjuncts and TAs to actually teach his classes. Other institutions have publishing requirements, minimum teaching requirements, and an overall higher workload.

But any way you slice it, actually getting tenure is still a pretty sweet deal, yes.
 
Emeritus is usually the term applied to a former holder of that position. (I'm an hour late, but still.)
 
Good post Dachsity-Diggity :lol:

My favorite thing to watch is in the Fall semester when the faculty return to campus and then find their friendly neighborhood civil service employee(secretary) and then look to start a conversation of commiseration with them about "wasn't that summer awfully short?" I've never seen any secretary return anything but a nearly audible stare of "F-off" to that overture.
 
Dachs said:
Depends on the university's tenure requirements. Somebody like Niall "Fire His Ass" Ferguson of Yale can churn out terrible pop-history books every year or so, make constant appearances on CNN as an Expert Commentator, and rely on adjuncts and TAs to actually teach his classes. Other institutions have publishing requirements, minimum teaching requirements, and an overall higher workload.

But any way you slice it, actually getting tenure is still a pretty sweet deal, yes.
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The Great NF is a Harvardman. Come on Dachs.
 
"The Great NF?" I leafed through one of his texts discussing the Spanish acquisition of the New World's precious metals with some mild interest, but I was distinctly underwhelmed by his alt-historical essay collection, Alternatives and Counterfactuals. It was the first book ever that I've bought at a charity shop and upon which I thought I'd wasted my money.
 
Quackers likes him because he is an apologist for "Western Civilization" and empire, specifically the British Empire.
 
I was planning to have a pompous bard show up in one of my role-playing sessions, who claims to know a lot more than he really does and isn't terribly reliable, even about the stuff he does know. His name: Niall Ua Fearghus.

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(I freely admit that that's probably not terribly fair.)
 
Dachs said:
They're the same institution. Like Oxbridge.
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I guess they're the same institution like any other university...
Still, its a factual error to call him a Yale man when he is at Harvard.
 
Niall Ferguson works for Niall Ferguson, Inc.; the rest is just something to put on the dust jacket.
 
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