dean
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She is a law professor and associate dean at Stanford.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Bay is now dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Unlike many peer institutions, the school doesn’t charge incoming students an enrollment deposit—if you say you are coming, they believe you, said Ashley Pallie, Caltech’s dean of undergrad admissions who helped conceive the fraud squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
In the early 1920s, Carter G. Woodson, a historian and educator who had earned a PhD in history from Harvard seventeen years after Du Bois, served as the colleges dean.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Now she is besieged by an array of faculty, unions and deans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As part of the role, monarchs are responsible for approving the appointment of archbishops, bishops and deans on the recommendation of the prime minister.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
“Provisional licensure would allow candidates with offers of employment contingent on bar passage to retain them,” the deans wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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
The cost of cyclotrons already was raising the hackles of academic deans and presidents.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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