deanship
Americannoun
plural
deanshipsExample Sentences
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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
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
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