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Sep 24, 2019 at 13:55	history	edited	Tommi	CC BY-SA 4.0	info from a comment
Dec 21, 2018 at 18:30	comment	added	Bryan Krause♦		@MichaelMacAskill That conflation is also present in academia: heads of departments are often referred to as "the chair of the department" at least here in the US; this doesn't mean they have an endowed chair necessarily. The original question indeed mentions that it seems like "chair" is used in an academic context without an association to endowed chairs or other honorary positions, which is what this answer addresses.
Dec 21, 2018 at 18:14	history	edited	MarkTO	CC BY-SA 4.0	Clarified an ambiguity
Dec 21, 2018 at 18:13	comment	added	MarkTO		@MichaelMacAskill Yep. The question doesn't distinguish at that level either, however.
Dec 21, 2018 at 1:06	comment	added	Michael MacAskill		This answer is conflating the administrative term chair meaning "chairperson" (equivalent to "head of department" in other places) with the professorial term chair, which is associated with research rather than management.
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Dec 20, 2018 at 17:58	history	answered	MarkTO	CC BY-SA 4.0