MIT teacher (4)

I believe the answer is:

prof

(Other definitions for prof that I've seen before include "Academic briefly" , "head of dept at uni" , "High-ranking university academic (abbr)" , "Senior academic (colloq.)" , "teacher" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.

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