The former Mr. Soetoro’s “career” as a “law professor,” has been grossly exaggerated. He was an adjunct instructor.
The NYT is merely bolstering the official hagiography of Obama I, Saviour of Our Nation and Its Way of Life as He Sees It.
Accredited universities with tenured faculty jealously guard those professional titles. A prominent university law school I know of insists on calling the adjunct instructors "adjuncts," and only the "tenure-track" and tenured instructors can claim the coveted title of "Professor."