An adjunct professor is hired to teach for a limited time, usually one semester.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

For example,a State of the World Seminar takes place each semester.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

And they must reapply for the awards each semester.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Three hundred inmates take classes every semester.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

He resided in Dallas, but taught classes during the fall semester at Texas A and M University in College Station, where an institute was established in his name.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"I was finishing my last semester of law school, so,I guess, check back with me in 30 years and see if he's a litigator, because he would definitely come alive in my corporations classes and he always heard my professors speaking."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05