Professors and Typology of Time: Phenomenological Studying of the Experience of Time among Faculty Members of University of Guilan

University as the central place of thinking in the society has had more anxiety with respect to time and temporality in encountering with emergence of industrial revolution and mechanical (clock) time and eventually the current technological revolution. The purpose of this article is the studying of experience of time among faculty members of university of Gilan in Iran. The methodological approach is qualitative by using phenomenological method according to Van Manen’s analysis view. The studied population is all of employed faculty members of university of Guilan. The purposeful sampling and snowball sampling have been simultaneity used for choosing samples. In the following, data gathering technique is semi structured interview which concluded after doing deep interviews with 25 persons and attaining theoretical saturation. According to data, faculty members experience 7 types of time in the academic life that include qualitative time, acceleration time, structural time, compressed time, educational time, research time and studying time. These times exist simultaneity and contradictorily with each other, but represent opposition between acceptance and refusal of dominant time regime in the university. This opposition expresses asynchrony that leads to more convergence in spite of more resistance.