Originally Posted by Unregistered

If you are true Oxbridge or Harvard (ie your UNDERGRAD / JD degree is from those esteemed places), the universities treat you differently. No need Sheridan, go straight to assoc Prof.

See eg Prof Ben Ong from SMU, proper Oxford undergrad degree.

But if your undergrad is say NUS/London, regardless of where your Masters are from (everyone knows you just need to pay), they make you go through a “Sheridan’s Fellow” as a testing ground to see if you can prove your worth…and eventually make it to Assoc Prof and Assistant Prof.