deanship
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deanships
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It sounds unwise to give up a university deanship because your campus isn’t getting a particular fast-food franchise, no matter how much you love the waffle fries.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2019
That title originated as a prank by an evil colleague and is the only deanship I haven’t managed to dodge.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2018
His other motivation is his belief in the power of education, he said; his deanship at Harvard has been an opportunity to work with people focused on expanding educational opportunity.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2017
In an email shortly after resigning the $1.1-million-a-year deanship, Puliafito told The Times he made the move voluntarily to pursue a biotech job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2017
The discussion soon yielded a formal offer from Conant of a $12,000 salary to cover a full professorship, along with the deanship of a new graduate school of engineering and applied science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
At most education schools, the professors with the research budgets and deanships have little interest in the science of teaching.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2014
Earlier this year, Richard Berendzen, president of the American University in Washington, ran ads in educational journals for two deanships, one in arts and sciences, the other in the law school.
From Time Magazine Archive
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