deanship

American  

[deen-ship] / ˈdinˌʃɪp /

noun

• deanships
  plural

1. the position, status, or tenure of a dean.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• deanships
  plural

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Example Sentences

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deanship deanships

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

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

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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