"professorial appointment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, and can be used to refer to someone's acceptance of a professorship - typically in a university or college.
For example: "After three years of hard work, John was delighted when he landed a professorial appointment at the University of Cambridge."
His first professorial appointment was at Stanford University, where he taught economics from 1979 to 1985.
The first professorial appointment to be made with this money is expected to be a BNFL chair in radiation effects on materials.
The professorial appointment was meant to be temporary, but he never left and never missed a class during 15 months of chemotherapy and radiation.
In a lifetime of successes and honors, her appointment at Rutgers was her first professorial appointment, and it was an honor to be able to pay homage to her.
Along with her professorial appointment, the Brodsky Center established the June Wayne Archive and Study Room based on Wayne's gift of 3,321 prints (2,555 by Wayne herself) along with works by 128 artists whom she had published.
This was no easy task, as the young graduate had already gained a professorial appointment in the US and, given the deep economic crisis, was about to be lost to brain drain.
Reduction in salaries for tenured staff will create new professorial appointments and reduce the imbalance between the number of temporary researchers and professors, while smaller research units will favour better supervision of PhD candidates and reduce fixed costs.
At several universities, vice-chancellors are believed to have altered the composition of interview panels to ensure that professorial appointments are made by senior managers rather than by members of the relevant academic department.
His first professorial appointments were at Cornell and MIT.
In a sector where promotion is on the basis of research rather than people skills, making professorial appointments conditional on undertaking management training could help, it was suggested.
The law will also switch professorial appointments from a local to a national system and allow universities the autonomy to take on contract research projects and make ad hoc academic appointments.
