Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John T. Dunlop, 56, Dean of the Faculty and considered by many the second most powerful man in the University, is the odds-on favorite-if he wants the job. But Dunlop's switch to provost would open up the deanship of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences just as the Faculty is settling down from its feuds...
...Harvard (graduated from Berkeley in 1935) and appears lacking in much of the polish traditionally associated with the Harvard administration. Coming into the deanship in the middle of restructuring debates and Faculty power struggles, his blunt manner has been his greatest virtue. In departmental meetings, he's been blunt and open enough to gain the trust of widely divergent Faculty groups...
Having achieved such innovations, Manning concludes that he has run "the full cycle" of the law school deanship. "I have now become a fund raiser," he says, "a huckster on the road." For a top scholar on corporate law and an administrator with few peers, a new challenge may be hard to find. But no one who knows him doubts that Manning will succeed...
Skeptical faculty members who two years ago thought Bok was too young for the deanship now praise his performance. He has succeeded in changing one of the most staid laws schoolsin the country with grade reforms and more relevant courses, and still kept adamant opponents of both from leaving...
...political Candidates usually ascribe their victories to the wisdom of the voters. But not the Rev. Robert Drinan, the Jesuit who last week upset Congressman Philip Philbin, a 14-term House veteran, in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. "It was a miracle," said Drinan, who is on leave from his deanship at Boston College Law School. It was, however, something a lot more mundane that made Drinan almost a sure bet to become the first Catholic cleric in 145 years to go to Congress...