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A dean is usually the head of a significant collection of departments within a university (e.g., "dean of the downtown campus", "dean of the college of arts and sciences", "dean of the school of medicine"), with responsibilities for approving faculty hiring, setting academic policies, overseeing the budget, fundraising, and other administrative ...
Dean College was founded by Oliver Dean as a co-educational academy, Dean Academy, in 1865. He gave the school approximately nine acres of land and donated $125,000 towards its construction. The first class at Dean Academy was on October 1, 1866, with 44 students attending at the local Universalist Church.
Until December 2019, the dean held the position until death or resignation; there was no mandatory age of retirement. [4] Then, upon accepting Cardinal Angelo Sodano's resignation as dean of the College of Cardinals, Pope Francis established that the dean would henceforth serve a five-year term that may be renewed once.
A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university.The title used varies between colleges, including dean, master, president, principal, provost, rector and warden.
Where it is used, it typically means "provost" or "dean". Deans may head an individual college, school or faculty; or they may be deans of the student body, or a section of it (e.g., the dean of students in a law school); or they may be deans of a particular functional unit (e.g., Dean of Admissions, or Dean of Records); or they may be deans of ...
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism – Sarah Bartlett, Dean; CUNY School of Law – Mary Lu Bilek, Dean; CUNY School of Medicine – Maurizio Trevisan, Dean; CUNY School of Professional Studies – John Mogulescu, Dean; CUNY School of Public Health – Ayman El-Mohandes, Dean; Guttman Community College – Scott E. Evenbeck, President
Since July 2022, Sorett has been the dean of Columbia College and vice president of undergraduate education. [2]During Columbia's annual alumni reunion on May 31, 2024, Sorett texted with three other Columbia deans about an antisemitism panel on campus, responding "yup" to comments that the other deans had made and at one point texting "LMAO".
A dean's list is an academic award, or distinction, used to recognize the highest level scholarship demonstrated by students in a college or university.This system is most often used in North America, [1] [2] though institutions in Europe, [3] Asia, [4] and Australia [5] may also employ similar measures.