{{Short description|Academic title}} {{Globalize|article|US|date=March 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Main articles|Professors in the United States|Academic ranks in the United States}} '''Distinguished professor''' is an academic title given to some top tenured professors in American universities, schools, or departments. Some distinguished professors may have endowed chairs.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=The Hierarchy of Professors, Explained |url=https://thebestschools.org/magazine/professors-ranks/ |website=TheBestSchools.org |date=23 August 2018 |access-date=24 January 2022 |archive-date=25 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525162624/https://thebestschools.org/magazine/professors-ranks/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Often specific to one institution, titles such as "president's professor", "university professor", "distinguished professor", "distinguished research professor", "distinguished teaching professor", "distinguished university professor", or "regents professor" are granted to a small percentage of the top tenured faculty who are regarded as particularly important in their respective fields of research.<ref name=":0" /> Some institutions grant more university-specific, formal titles such as M.I.T.'s "Institute Professor", Yale University's "Sterling Professor", or Duke University's "James B. Duke Professor".
Some academic and/or scholarly organizations may also bestow the title "distinguished professor" in recognition of achievement over the course of an academic career. For example, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture annually recognizes up to five faculty members at architecture schools in the United States and Canada with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/awards/archives/DP|title=ACSA Distinguished Professor Awards|work=acsa-arch.org|access-date=24 January 2022|archive-date=9 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909202848/http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/awards/archives/DP|url-status=live}}</ref>
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