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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Associate Chair

French translation:

chaire de recherche/ chercheur associée

Added to glossary by Yvonne Gallagher
Jan 7, 2011 13:52
13 yrs ago
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English term

Associate Chair

English to French Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy quelqu'un me propose "fut nommé au poste de chaire associée" - qu'en pensez-vous?
He was promoted to Full Professor in 1993, and was appointed Associate Chair of the University Department of Surgery in 1998
Proposed translations (French)
4 chair de recherche/ chercheur associée
4 +1 professeur associé
3 +2 directeur adjoint
4 doyen associé
Change log

Jan 7, 2011 14:20: Suzanne Bernard changed "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "quelqu\'un me propose \"fut nommé au poste de chaire associée\" - qu\'en pensez-vous?"

Jan 15, 2011 13:21: Yvonne Gallagher Created KOG entry

Discussion

cc in nyc Jan 15, 2011:
@ gallagy2 You've just described two different types of "chair":
1/ chair of department is just like a chairperson directing things, coordinating courses and so on but is not an academic "Chair".
Every department has a chairperson at its head. This not normally an endowed position, though the titleholder may occupy an endowed or otherwise funded chair connected with their teaching position.

2/ A professor who is offered a Chair, can spend more time on researching their own speciality (and has reduced or no lecturing hours) and directing post graduate students with their these.
There can be many funded chairs in a department. Never heard of an "associate chair" in this context. Perhaps I'm wrong, but this doesn't sound right to me for this thread.

We can disagree, but the Asker has the •complete* context, and (I imagine) access to a local university – perhaps even to the university in question. Up to the Asker to decide. It's done...
Yvonne Gallagher Jan 15, 2011:
just to be clear, chair of department is just like a chairperson directing things, coordinating courses and so on but is not an academic "Chair". These "Chairs" are sometimes endowed but not always. Funds for the research can come from the college itself, from trust funds, from individuals and/or from industry and corporations. A professor who is offered a Chair, can spend more time on researching their own speciality (and has reduced or no lecturing hours) and directing post graduate students with their these. This "Associate chair" is part of the team
GILLES MEUNIER Jan 7, 2011:
Pays Quel pays SVP ?
cc in nyc Jan 7, 2011:
university chairs There are several type of university chairs:<br>
– Endowed chairs are faculty positions established to attract and/or retain distinguished faculty members. These faculty positions are often named after the individual(s) who provided the endowment for the chair. Some departments (also, some entire colleges) have no endowed chairs.<br>
– Each department has a chairperson – in the past, called a chairman – now often referred to as the department chair or chair of the department. This is an administrative position, usually in addition to teaching/research/etc. duties, though sometimes department chairs have reduced courseloads.<p>
I'm not absolutely sure, but the "Associate Chair of the University Department of Surgery" in this thread sounds (to me, at least) like the latter.

Proposed translations

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Selected

chair de recherche/ chercheur associée


Erk - Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et ...Chercheur associé, Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes. Professeur, Départment de science politique, Université de Leiden ...
www.creqc.uqam.ca › CREQC - Cached

Barker - Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et ...Chercheure associée, Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et ...
www.creqc.uqam.ca/spip.php?page=membre&id_article...id... - Cached

Chaire de recherche du Canada en sécurité, identité et technologie ... Il détient une maîtrise en relations internationales de l'Université ...
www.benoitdupont.net/node/2 - Cached - Similar

Titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada en métallogénie magmatique ..... SEG workshop, student chapter, Laval University in association with Québec ...
wwwdsa.uqac.ca/~sjbarnes/publications.html - Cached - Similar



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Note added at 12 hrs (2011-01-08 01:56:44 GMT)
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this is the term given by Termium. All universities seek important research fellows so this professor has been promoted to Associate Chair which does not necessarily involve admin (or even lecturing) as such but further research in their speciality and supervising Masters or doctorate theses. There are important distinctions between countries, even between the US and Canada, see Wiki

However, in the United States and Canada the title of professor is given to a much .... to a group of educators at the college and university level; in Canada, ..... Academic duties of associate professors and professors are nearly the ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor - Cached - Similar



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Note added at 12 hrs (2011-01-08 02:05:09 GMT)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor - Cached - Similar

... Graduate officers/associate chairs and the associate provost, graduate studies are ... University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 ...
www.grad.uwaterloo.ca/students/gsosupportguide.asp - Cached - Similar


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Note added at 7 days (2011-01-15 13:16:23 GMT) Post-grading
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thanks. Glad I could help:-)
Peer comment(s):
neutral GILLES MEUNIER : chaire
12 hrs
oui , chaire, merci:-)
neutral cc in nyc : This Answer describes an endowed chair, not a department chair (sorry for the late entry) // Too late for grades, but I don't think that this Answer describes the assistant (or associate) to the head of the department of surgery
7 days
not necessarily endowed. Thanks for changing "disagree" to "neutral"
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you!"
+1
6 mins

professeur associé

This term seems to be used frequently in Canadian French to translate the title "Associate Chair" in the university field.

Otherwise use Président associé
Example sentence:

Je suis politicologue et professeur associé au département de sciences politiques de l'Université de Toronto.

I am a political scientist and associate chair of the political science department at the University of Toronto.

Reference:

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/P...arl=37&Ses=2

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/P...arl=37&Ses=2

Note from asker:
Oui, c'est bien au Canada.
Peer comment(s):
agree Thierry Bourguet : Oui, s'il s'agit du Canada.
1 hr
disagree cc in nyc : In the USA, an associate professor ranks lower than a full professor (thus the "disagree"), and has nothing to do with directing a department in a university. D'ailleurs cf. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professeur_associé
1 hr
neutral Yvonne Gallagher : as cc says, this is lower than Professor...
12 hrs
agree GILLES MEUNIER
1 day 9 mins
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10 mins

doyen associé

le directeur d'une faculté s'appelle en général le doyen

"Doyen associé. Éducation médicale de premier cycle. Faculté de médecine de l'Université d'Ottawa. Située dans la capitale historiquement et culturellement ..."
http://www.came-acem.ca/docs/announcements/U-of-O-Jan-2011.p...

"UNIGE - Faculté de Médecine - conseil participatif: archives 2007
30 août 2010 ... Université de Genève. Faculté de Médecine ... Panteleimon Giannakopoulos en tant que vice-doyen associé de la Faculté 2007-2011 par 14 oui, ..."
http://www.unige.ch › ... › LA FACULTE › conseil participatif › archives
Peer comment(s):
neutral Nicky La Touche : Usually a Chair is not a head of a faculty. The purpose of university chairs is to attract, recognize and retain scholars who are acknowledged by their peers as being pre-eminent in their research fields.
7 mins
neutral cc in nyc : Si c'est une université aux USA, "chair / associate chair" n'est pas un chef adjoint de toute la faculté de médecine (par exemple) mais plutôt du département de chirurgie.
1 hr
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+2
57 mins

directeur adjoint

This is an administrative position within a single department (smaller than a college or school (or faculté).
Example sentence:

Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics

Professeur et directeur adjoint du Département de mathématiques appliquées

Reference:

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Regional-Regionaux/OntarioCommittee-ComiteOntario_eng.asp

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Regional-Regionaux/OntarioCommittee-ComiteOntario_fra.asp

Note from asker:
Au Canada, Gilles.
Peer comment(s):
neutral GILLES MEUNIER : Je pense que l'on peut être catégorique qu'en sachant le pays concerné....
1 hr
Merci... J'aurais dû dire que je parle étatsunicien... quoique les Références que j'ai affichées viennent des sites web canadiens. // Thank you for changing the categorical "disagree" to "neutral"
agree cchat : Si c'est au Canada, cela me semble convenir.
20 hrs
Merci bien pour la confirmation.
agree kevin lb : cela convient avec la définition US
3 days 6 hrs
Merci pour la confirmaion.
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