provost
教务长
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- : a person appointed to superintend or preside.
- : an administrative officer in any of various colleges and universities who holds high rank and is concerned with the curriculum, faculty appointments, etc.
- : Ecclesiastical. the chief dignitary of a cathedral or collegiate church.
- : the steward or bailiff of a medieval manor or an officer of a medieval administrative district.
- : the mayor of a municipality in Scotland.
- : Obsolete. a prison warden.
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Before that, he served in various positions — including professor, chemistry department chair and provost — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A previous version of this article misstated the last name of a provost and professor at Florida International University.
Now that we have the basis of such a tool, the international community needs to commit to funding it, so it doesn’t have to beg in the middle of a crisis, says Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania.
The riots at Ole Miss had been followed by the exodus of the provost, several department heads, and distinguished faculty, as well as a dramatic drop in student enrollment from outside the state.
Two days later, six female professors at Northwestern sent a letter to the university provost expressing dismay at the hiring and requesting an “independent, transparent and third-party investigation” into Richardson’s accusations against Polisky.
The filmmakers are my goddaughter Sara Ossana and her husband Mathew Provost.
Previously, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University.
As Stanford provost, Rice dismissed, on budgetary grounds, a popular Latina administrator.
Vice Provost for Research Dr. David Korn, who is leading efforts to craft the policy, says it will cover all university faculty.
The UCL president and provost, Professor Malcolm Grant is “deeply saddened by these events.”