http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/867973,CST-NWS-sweet30.article

March 30, 2008

"The University of Chicago released a statement Thursday saying Sen. Barack Obama "served as a professor" in the law school -- but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed on Friday.

"He did not hold the title of professor of law," said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an assistant dean for communications and lecturer in law at the school."

"Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991. He was a lecturer at the U. of C. law school between 1992 and 1996. During that time, he was an attorney at the law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. In his first years of teaching, he had only one course.

He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1996, and his teaching load eventually increased to three courses a year, less than the load of a professor."

"Obama's appointment was not part of an academic search process, and he did not have any scholarly research obligations."

It's pretty clear to me. He was a part time lecturer who held a day job as an attorney.

Mark