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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 a particular campus, or (unusually) of a particular ...
A dean is aided by several pro-deans (Prodekan) who take over certain responsibilities of faculty administration and by an assistant dean (Dekanatsrat). The pro-deans are likewise elected professorial members of the faculty, while the assistant dean is usually a longterm administrative role with a strong academic background.
The chief executive, the administrative and educational head of a university, depending on tradition and location, may be termed the university president, the provost, the chancellor (the United States), the vice-chancellor (many Commonwealth countries), principal (Scotland and Canada), or rector (Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East and South America).
The first dean of men was LeBaron Russell Briggs at Harvard University in 1890, [45] with the first dean of women being Adelia Field Johnston in 1869 at the Oberlin College as lady principal and later named dean of women in 1894. [46] Alice Freeman Palmer in 1892 at the University of Chicago was the first to hold the title of dean of women.
Formar Foundation is a non-profit organization with ties to both Latin America and the United States that is dedicated to addressing issues of education and training at the early childhood, primary, and secondary schooling levels (pre-K through 12). We bring together a team of public
The decade was noted by the presence of Armour Blackburn of Howard University, the first African-American administrator to participate [1] and serve on an executive committee. [7] As student affairs offices began to change and administrators no longer used "Dean of Men" and "Advisor of Men" as their titles, the organization followed suit.
Michael Anthony Lindsey is an American scholar, college administrator and researcher in social work and public health who specializes in child and adolescent mental health, and has conducted key research about Black teenage suicide in the United States and related behaviors in adolescents. [1]
John Brian Atwood (born 25 July 1942) is an American diplomat and former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 2002 to 2010, he was dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.