The Babson College community – including faculty, administrative leadership and the Board of Trustees – recently worked together to modernize the College’s faculty title convention for the first time in more than a decade, creating a new pathway for more robust career progression for full-time students. faculty members who are not on the tenure track.

Rather than the traditional titles of “Lecturer” and “Senior Lecturer,” the changes create titles of “Practice Professor” or “Teaching Professor” with assistant and associate degrees (as well as a new designation of “full”). Changes to College policies and procedures were recently approved by unanimous vote of the Board of Directors.

The approved changes more accurately and completely reflect the contributions of these valued faculty members, and they create an opportunity to showcase Babson’s competitive advantage and leadership in field experience, industry relationships and academic engagement in the liberal arts.

The significant amendment more clearly signals the status, roles and contributions of professional colleagues on the non-permanent track to external audiences in settings such as academic and industry conferences and for purposes such as experiential education, industry engagement and fundraising. It also shifts the paradigm on how the College thinks about ‘practice’ towards a broader understanding that encompasses meaningful engagement with all forms of knowledge and expertise, both within and beyond business circles. and economic.

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