The phrase "permanent professor" is correct and usable in written English.
It's usually used to refer to a professor who has a permanent academic position, as opposed to a visiting or adjunct professor. Example: The university recently announced the appointment of a permanent professor in the history department.
In 2001 he became a permanent professor at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
In 1956 he became permanent professor of historical studies at the institute in Princeton, a tenure broken only by a stint as U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia (1961 63).
An officer of the Navy or Marine Corps who is a permanent professor at the United States Naval Academy.
He then held visiting positions at Harvard (1993 96) and at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1996 98), before becoming a permanent professor in 1998 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
An officer serving as a permanent professor may be recommended for promotion to the grade of captain or colonel, as the case may be, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
If made, the promotion of an officer under subsection (a) shall be effective not earlier than three years after the selection of the officer as a permanent professor as described in that subsection.
The regulations shall include a competitive selection board process to identify those permanent professors best qualified for promotion.
Gilman told the trustees that he had four "considerations which should be constantly in mind in the selection of permanent professors.
Proceeds from the $3 million gift will pay for a number of visiting scholars who will teach courses as Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professors of Law until the school selects a permanent, tenured professor, the university said.
He was also a permanent visiting professor at Anhui University in Hefei, China, as well as a visiting professor at Budapest's Central European University, the school founded by George Soros that was driven out of Hungary this week by the country's authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban.
He is leading a research team of 30 people including people with permanent position (professors and assistant professors, technicians), post-docs and PhD students.
