Well? Another thread made me wonder about this possibility. To go to that other thread, just click on Mr. Smiley (above).
If not why not? With master's degree and professional experince, nothing will stop you. In the U.K., there are many full professors in top-ranked universities with only bachelor's degree.
Sure, as long as you have sufficient qualifications. In other words, don't expect the honorary doctorate to qualify you for an academic position. Quite a few profs in writing programs have no degree beyond the MFA. I imagine that if Steven Spielberg wanted to spend some time teaching, film schools would line up to have him, even if he has only a bachelor's degree.
Every once in a great while, someone comes along with particular skills or qualities that elevates them way about where they would be based upon their educational credentials only. They can teach at any university, if that university elects to give them a position. Usually, it is a visiting position, and very limited in scope. Do you think a university would think twice about hiring Pablo Picaso to teach modern art? Or Charles Lindberg to teach a course in the aeronautics department? Or how about John Wayne to teach in the theater department? Wes
Maybe they already have. It sounds like a good candidate for the next accounting scandal of the week.
One of the things that I've found after almost 20 years in academia is that there are three categories of college. Research Universities head the list, and are very reluctant to hire anyone without an earned doctorate, except perhaps for a visiting faculty appointment. The others, undergraduate schools and community colleges, will usually consider people with masters degrees, professional licenses and relevant experience. Much of this depends upon the current market. My current emploer gets literally hundreds of resumes for every opening in fields such as English, History, etc., but very few in hard sciences, technology, computers. The result is that all of our new hires in English have doctorates, but none of our Computer Science faculty do.
Certainly. A professor *can* be hired without any academic qualifications at all *if* they have some level of skill that no one (or very few) possess. Check out Juan Serrano, one of the world's foremost experts on flamenco guitar. His only doctorate is in Humane Letters, which is honorary. I believe he has a bachelor's degree, but not even a master's degree. I believe he was hired prior to the honorary doctorate. http://www.csufresno.edu/music/Bios/Serrano.html http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/54/juan_serrano.html?lang=eng Tom Nixon Tom Nixon
Re: Re: Can you be a professor with an honorary doctorate ? There is an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music, Bruce Bartlett, that has no formal college education at all. Bruce
