University don

A don is a fellow or tutor of a college or university, especially traditional collegiate universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in England.[1]

The term — similar to the title still used for Catholic priests — is a historical remnant of Oxford and Cambridge having started as ecclesiastical institutions in the Middle Ages.

Canada

In some universities in Canada, don is a resident assistant, typically an upper-year student paid a stipend to act as an advisor to and supervisor of the students in a university residence.

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Notes

  1. ^ For background information and opinion, see a recently published selection of short articles by Cambridge Don, Professor Mary Beard, It's a Don's Life, London, Profile, 2009. ISBN 1846682577.