deanship
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She will not serve on the clerkship committee under my deanship.
From Slate ● May 15, 2021
Quick issued a statement Tuesday confirming that it was Ford’s information that led him to reach out to other USC staffers about Puliafito and to ultimately end his deanship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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 addition, Stern officially announced last winter that he’s stepping down from the deanship of the Yale School of Architecture, a post he’s held for the last seventeen years.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 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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