deanship
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deanships
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At the time Mark Ridley-Thomas contacted Flynn, prosecutors allege, the school’s existence was threatened as were her deanship and reputation in the social work field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
She will not serve on the clerkship committee under my deanship.
From Slate ● May 15, 2021
Hawley was poised for a bright future in the conservative intellectual legal world—a deanship, a federal judgeship, even the Supreme Court.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
In 1983 she became the dean of Boston University’s School for the Arts, a post she held until 1991, when she retired from the deanship but continued teaching there.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2016
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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