What would one call a person who has an interest to be a professor?
What are some good ways to give an academic interest if he/she is not an academic yet what is the correct word to give to a professor, while an academic has interest in him/herself, like a lecturer? Can someone be called an academic passionate?
What should I do if I was a troll?
Someone who has set a goal and is actively working towards it is aspiring toward said goal.
Aspiration (verb) communicate one’s aims toward things. Aspiration (verb) direct one’s hopes or ambitions toward something.
“we never thought that we might aspire to those heights”
source Merriam-Webster
While used with a broad range of aspirations, a common use is applied to struggling actors or artists.
I would recommend you use that phrase, though I’d recommend you do that only among friends and not on job materials. What are the common terms used in academia?
There is a term I’ve encountered at conferences for different organizations of people who are not affiliated with universities but who do academic research: independent scholar. This substitutes for their affiliation, but also serves as an ad hoc position title. What is National Coalition of Independent Scholars in India?
While there is not necessarily a sense that independent scholars aspire to be university professors (some do, some don’t), it would be preferable or academic enthusiast or aspiring academic in many job-related contexts. Universities need graduate students, researchers or faculty. Why? The title enthusiast sounds comparatively nonchalant and amateur compared to those positions, and aspiring sounds hopeful but insubstantial. (OK, so you hope.) What are you doing to get there? Why is “publish or see perish” used to describe the expectations of academic publishing to get or keep a job? It is critical that companies provide the job portfolio and application materials with a job language that matches. Because hiring committees expect current competency, and not hopefulness, I advise avoiding aspirational language in any job material or portfolio.
In comparison, independent scholar isn’t a perfect term, but accompanied with a publication history it would demonstrate that the prospective applicant is serious about their work. Please note that other terms will use both prospective faculty and candidate (often applied internally by universities to applicants for professor positions; also used generally as a label for people on the faculty job market). I recommend picking an explanation that signal how you’re one step away from the next position.
