Are all the lecturers at Cornell real professors?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>(as per title)</p>

<p>So… no Teaching Assistance teaching undergrad students, right?</p>

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<p>wrong…</p>

<p>not all courses at cornell require a professor…</p>

<p>most will…but this is especially true of freshman writing seminars…</p>

<p>remember to call non-professors “instructors” as they are not professors…</p>

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<p>If your course has a section…it will most likely be lead by an undergraduate or graduate TA.</p>

<p>For the most part…lectures are taught by a professor or senior lecturer.</p>

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<p>Writing seminars tend to be taught by graduate students.</p>

<p>Course lectures tend to be taught by professors or sometimes lecturers (non-tenure track instructors who have a PhD). Graduate students usually do the sections/review sessions.</p>

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<p>my roommate has a calc class where the teacher’s a grad student.</p>

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<p>my calc class has a grad student as a lecturer and a discussion lecturer. and I wouldn’t want it any other way. they’re both really cool.</p>

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<p>Cornell has 7,000 grad students. Of course many of them are going to be teacher assistants and giving lectures.</p>

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<p>also the robot profs…</p>