What are the main work and responsibilities of a Professor?

Below is the list of the main work and responsibilities of a Professor:

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The professor is the senior faculty member in a college or a university. The professor is a doctoral degree holder, having many years of experience of teaching, research, student guidance, administration and other related work.



The basic and fundamental work responsibility of a professor is teaching. The professor usually teaches graduates, post graduates and doctoral degree students. He has to deliver lectures on the subject of his specialization. He prepares notes, and also uses multimedia to explain the things easily, minutely and in detail so that the student can easily grab the things. He also answer the queries of students regarding some topic.



Other then teaching the professor is also busy in conducting research. The research part of his job is done by his research scholars and students. The post graduate and doctoral degree students conducts research in supervision of a professor. He also monitor some research projects funded by the funding agencies. In these research projects he inducts some senior research fellow or junior research fellow, whose work is supervised by the professor.

The output of the students research work and research projects are published in the form of research papers in peer reviewed journals. He also prepare and submit the report of his research projects to the funding agency on regular basis. He also monitor the financial part of his research projects. Besides these work he is also busy in writing review articles, book chapters and books related to his or her subject.



The professor also attends or organize the international or national conferences, workshops, symposium and training programs. These workshops and symposium provides the opportunity to make good research collaboration with the person of his interest. The participation and organization of these conferences by a professor is important for his promotion.



Besides these regular activities the professor is also busy in interacting with colleagues, senior and some times with clients also. He has to attend meetings on various departmental matters. he could be member of exam committee or quality control support of the department, or he may be looking after the departmental library or looking after students placements.



The senior professor are appointed as Head of the department, Dean of the college or institute or Director of University. Here the professor is involved mainly in administrative jobs but he also finds time to guide his research students and his research projects.

Professors have enormous and a variety of roles these days than only teaching. In the previous decade a professor only dealt with teaching and student record maintenance. But in the recent times professors have a lot more to do and I shall explain them in detail on here.