Titles in Teaching
For the last three summers I have taught an online course for a seminary as an "adjunct professor." This winter I will have the honor of teaching again, but this time as an adjunct for a university. They call their adjuncts "contracted faculty" (as opposed to tenured faculty). When I teach in the summer I identify myself by my ecclesiastical title "Pastor," in part, because I am teaching pastors-to-be, and partly because I have a hard time thinking of myself as a professor in the full sense of that word. This winter, however, since I am teaching university students online I am unsure of what to be called. One site says that adjuncts may use the title "professor" as a courtesy, but properly speaking they are not actually part of the faculty. Since I do not have an earned doctorate I obviously cannot use that title. Calling myself "Pastor," while accurate, may not be quite what I need at the university level since I am not opera...