Oh, and what's worse I have been reading her twitter, and she has told her 150 or so followers that she is a professor not once, but 7 times.
She has told all of the family. I instant messaged her and she never replied. I have told her in person and she says I just don't know how things work at her college. Oh, but I do. It is pretty standard that a student starting on a masters can be a T/A or GSI. Not a professor.
Um. No. She's not.
Even wikipedia says so.
At most she could call herself an instructor.
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While I would warn against using Wikipedia as a course, it's right.
To be a professor you need to be in a much-envied tenure-track position at a university/college. Graduating with a bachelors most certainly doesn't not make one a professor. Even with a bachelors, you need to be in a graduate program until you can be called a grad. Then you need to pass your oral (or equivalent) exams and requirements before you can earn the title of candidate. In the meantime, you might be a temporary lecturer, but that's as advanced as it gets. After receiving a doctorate, one earns the title of "doctor" (regardless of employment), and that title always stays.
However, one cannot be a professor until one has a tenure-track position at a university or college. Even then you aren't technically a professor until you HAVE tenure AND have been approved for the position (hiring makes you an assistant prof usually and you're an associate prof until your peers make you a full prof).
Your sister has some delusions of grandeur. Makes me wonder if your aunt's psychosis is somehow connected. O.o
Wait, your sister is old enough to be a grad student and acts so childish? Wow! I can totally relate, my (even older) brother is the same way. A TA (which I have been twice before) is so low down on the academic food chain, it's beyond laughable to call oneself a professor! Even adjunct professors would be scared to use that title lightly. :)
Mike: "Instructor" might be technically correct, but I'd still refer to her as a teaching assistant. She just finished college herself, she just barely knows the material and she has little experience teaching, so it's like the blind leading the blind calling herself "professor" -- but I can tell already and from previous posts, she is going to lord this over you. How irritating.
James: Aren't there different levels in the hierarchy of professorship (with the highest being tenured and then some)? I thought that beginning professor faculty don't typically start out with tenure, but are on the tenure track with the promise of tenure somewhere down the road. At least, that's how it seemed to work at my undergrad.
Anyway, yeah, wow. She calls herself professor?! Your sister has some power issues . . . She's at best a TA or GSI. And her students wouldn't (and shouldn't) give her the respect of the title "professor."
::facepalm::
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