provost
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Michael Spence, UCL president and provost, said he recognised that the Covid pandemic had been "incredibly difficult for students" and the university's response was "responsible and robust".
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Shawn Brick, UC’s associate vice provost for student financial aid, said in an interview that the change would not reduce UC’s focus on helping lower- and middle-income students.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
Shawn Brick, UC’s associate vice provost for student financial aid, cautioned that the change would not affect UC’s overall mission to help low and middle-income families pay for college.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025
“It’s not sufficient to just keep doing what you were doing before, because the field evolves and the world evolves,” Baicker, the provost, said of the humanities changes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal’s building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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