Previously, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University.
As Stanford provost, Rice dismissed, on budgetary grounds, a popular Latina administrator.
The UCL president and provost, Professor Malcolm Grant is “deeply saddened by these events.”
And then another woman insisted I was the provost of a small university in Southern Florida.
It was provost, my first professor, who had come to encourage me.
provost was tall, his silvery hair was blown about, and he had a droll face.
provost heard my "cue" on the stage, and pushed me gently forward.
"Well, you needn't pay any heed to the provost, need you," Mr. Quinn retorted.
The provost's men are beating the country for the blackguard.
"Nor will it be taken," the provost insisted, with an assurance that carried conviction.
Old English profost, reinforced by Old French cognate provost, both from Late Latin propositus (reinforced by Old French cognate provost), from Latin propositus/praepositus "a chief, prefect" (source of Old Provençal probost, Old High German probost, German Propst), literally "placed before, in charge of," from past participle of praeponere "put before" (see preposition). Provost marshal first recorded 1510s.
