Dive Brief:
- Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina has promoted about a third of its instructors to "professor."
- A school official says the community college is one of the few in the country that calls its faculty by that title.
- The school considered for promotion faculty members who had taught there more than seven years; 85% of the eligible faculty applied and most were accepted.
Dive Insight:
Most who were promoted were made "assistant professor." Two people received the title of "senior professor." It's not purely a title play: The promotions could mean as much as a 6% raise.
