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dean

[deen] / din /


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Prabhakar said her department chair, dean and a college vice president supported her explanation of the story’s academic purpose.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

As a Yale Sterling Professor and a former dean of Yale Law School, this issue is important to me.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

“They admitted what was true,” Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school and lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the researchers’ lawsuit, told me.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

After reporting concerns about harassment to Zhu, associate dean Anissa Rogers was forced to resign, the suit alleged.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Summer thought we should report the notes to Ms. Rubin, who was the middle-school dean, or even Mr. Tushman, but we thought that would be like snitching.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

Now she is besieged by an array of faculty, unions and deans.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 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

The deans urged the California Supreme Court to allow test takers who sat through the exam and were unsuccessful to obtain provisional licenses under the supervision of experienced attorneys.

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

Twelve o’clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and...whew, it was one o’clock!

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank




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