dean
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Spalding’s husband, Matthew, is that graduate school’s dean, and Samson has taken classes with one or both of them, according to a State Department official.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
The trial judge had previously ruled that reports by experts including Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of Harvard University’s public health school, cherry-picked results and were unreliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Stephen Galloway, dean of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and the former executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter, sees Tilly occupying an uncomfortable middle ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The dean of the law school lobbied McInnis to exclude the law school from negotiations, according to a person familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Thank you for your help,” Metias says to the dean secretary.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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This forces department chairs, deans, provosts and research vice presidents to own the veracity of every proposed publication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
“We understand that the initial departure from the nationally used MBE was prompted by budgetary considerations caused in part by the need to rent large spaces for test-takers,” the deans wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
In 1431, the ecumenical Council of Basel ordered the deans and rectors of churches to expel "frivolities" and "profane abuses" from holy buildings, but implicitly allowed them to take place in the squares outside.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
The cost of cyclotrons already was raising the hackles of academic deans and presidents.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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