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deanship

American  
[deen-ship] / ˈdinˌʃɪp /

noun

  • deanships
    plural
  1. the position, status, or tenure of a dean.


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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

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 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

Mr. Sonnenfeld’s problems in Atlanta began after he accepted an offer to leave Emory to take the business school deanship at rival Georgia Tech.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

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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