What Is a University Lecturer?

Lecturers (research posts) start courses or give professional training to students in their fields of expertise at the same time, while deeply cultivating their specialized disciplines, and gain professional recognition by publishing papers. Balance in all directions.

University Lecturer

Generally speaking, university lecturers are the only way to become a university professor. Teaching, researching, tutoring students, accumulating teaching experience, exploring academic insights at work, and eventually growing into a university professor.

Lectures, tutors the basic courses, professional basic courses, professional courses, answer questions, correct homework, and organize classroom discussions;

Participate in laboratory construction and guide experimental teaching;

Organize and guide production internships, social practices and social services;

Instruct curriculum design, graduation design, graduation thesis;

Compile textbooks and lectures, and conduct educational research;

Editing textbooks and teaching reference books;

Examination of students' academic performance;

Carry out scientific research and technological development.

Education and training: Doctoral degree (major in music, sports, and beauty can be relaxed to a master degree), and a college

The salary system of university lecturers has been improved after the reform. Some universities have introduced a "ternary structure salary system", which uses positions, qualifications, and performance as the three elements of teacher salary, and divides teacher positions into teaching research, teaching, and teaching. Three types of research, scientific research, intensify the encouragement of teaching positions in salary design, encourage young lecturers to go to the podium, and encourage senior professors to be willing to go to the podium.

This unique salary distribution plan has changed the deficiency of the previous job subsidy system for insufficient teaching such basic work, clarified the basic teaching workload that teachers must complete, reflects the characteristics of equal emphasis on teaching and scientific research, and took into account teachers' work interests. And work focus. At the same time, the new system has strengthened job responsibilities, increased performance rewards for outstanding teachers who overworked, and helped overcome the egalitarian tendencies in the salary distribution of the original system.

The salary of a university lecturer is basically composed of four major parts: post salary + allowance + class hour fee + subsidy. The salary of young university lecturers at the beginning of the job is not high, and generally fluctuates between 5000-7000 yuan. With the increase of scientific research projects and related teaching activities, the annual income of university lecturers can reach about 100,000.

Generally speaking, university lecturers are promoted from teaching assistants, and are middle-level titles among university teachers. Lecturers who have certain academic and scientific achievements will be promoted to associate professors and further to professors. However, some accompanying translators who have the ambition to engage in the profession of teachers and have a master's degree or above can also join the ranks of university lecturers and engage in English teaching.

In American universities, new teachers have a period of 6-7 years to investigate the academic level and professional ethics of teachers, and then the school decides whether to grant the title of professor according to academic qualifications. In China, teachers in universities generally follow the path of lecturer-associate professor-professor.

In the promotion process of university lecturers, academic achievements occupy a very important part, and the number of years of teaching, professional skills, teaching quality, and the irreplaceability of the research field in the school and the school are also reference factors in the promotion. Being promoted in an academic organization is not only an affirmation of the academic ability of university lecturers, but also a need for university lecturers to realize themselves. In addition, honors such as outstanding teachers, excellent thesis, and scholarships are also what university lecturers need to strive for.

The promotion process generally involves first submitting application materials that meet the relevant conditions, and all professors in the college have extensively discussed whether the applicant has reached the level of the job they are applying for, the so-called "peer review", which is adopted by democratic voting. Approved by the school academic committee and principal.

In addition, university lecturers can also develop in the direction of researchers, working in major research institutes, engaged in more specialized academic or subject research. ^[1]