Editing Rector (academia) (section)

==Compound titles==
A rector who has resigned is often given the title ''rector [[emeritus]]''. One who temporarily performs the functions usually fulfilled by a rector is styled a ''pro-rector'' (in parishes, administrator).

Deputies of rectors in institutions are known as ''vice-rector''s (in parishes, as curates, assistant - or associate rectors, etc.). In some universities the title vice-rector has, like [[vice-chancellor]] in many Anglo-Saxon cases, been used for the de facto head when the essentially honorary title of rector is reserved for a high externa dignitary; until 1920, there was such a ''vice-recteur'' at the Parisian [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] as the French Minister of Education was its nominal ''recteur''.