Combining Visiting Professor with TT I currently work as a TT Assistant Professor in a very comfortable and welcoming top-100 university in my field. My wife lives in another country for the time being and I would like to spend more time with her so I was looking for opportunities there as well. I noticed a top-10 university there that I have connections with that I would like to collaborate with. After making introductions and such, they are willing to collaborate and are additionally offering me a visiting professor position.

The way I understood this offer (one line in an e-mail), is that this would allow me to go there and do research and teach some courses every once in a while and probably get my costs reimbursed. After reading some threads here, it seems that my view is too simplistic and possibly wrong.


Is such a visiting professor position actually combineable with an existing TT position?
Is there a name for what I described in the second paragraph?
What would you recommend for my situation? Visiting researcher? Visiting scholar? Visiting professor?
I will answer this question in light of @paulgarrett 's comments:


A Visiting Professor position is a full time job and not combineable with a full time TT position
A Visiting Professor position is no guarantee whatsover for anything else in the future so one should not give up her TT position for this.
Visiting Scholar seems to be the type of position that is combineable: you start a research collaboration with the second university but officially affiliate 100% with your current one.


I ended up going for something in between which I hope will combines the best of both worlds: having the visiting scholar position for a year and simultaneously giving up 20% of my TT at my current institution in order to get a temporary 20% position as visiting professor at the external institution.