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provost

[proh-vohst, prov-uhst, proh-voh] / ˈproʊ voʊst, ˈprɒv əst, ˈproʊ voʊ /


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Today he serves as provost professor of humanities and arts at USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Universities really need to develop a vision of what we do, what we teach, how we teach it, what research we do, how we do it,” Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The university also hired a new provost and new deans and reformed its discipline policies to make them “more consistent, fair and effective,” Garber has said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Her academic leadership roles at the university have included those of interim associate dean, associate vice president for Student Success, and associate provost for Student Success, Equity and Innovation, the statement said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

“You are the wife of Kostas Vilkas, provost at the university?” asked a man in a suit sitting down from us.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

We, the authors, served as three of the five permanent or interim provosts and chief academic officers at WSU from 2008-20.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

The study added that between 1636 and 1834, 79 lord provosts were nominated to Glasgow Town Council, 40 of whom had connections to Atlantic slavery and others who owned enslaved people.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2022

Some will mostly keep college provosts up at night.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2021

Following his own precedent at Cardiff, St. Andrews, and Falkland, he presented to the corporation a beautiful chain of office for the use of the provosts.

From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by David Hunter Blair



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