Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the years 1945 to 1953, while President James B. Conant '14 spent much time in government service, Buck ran the University in his capacity as provost and dean...
...career at Harvard as a professor, dean, provost and director of the University library spanned 50 years and established Buck as a leading author and administrator...
...widespread return of basic skills requirements like math, languages and writing, prompts some observers to say colleges are moving "back to basics." Roderic B. Park '53, dean and provost of the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, says educators dislike the term "back to basics" because "it implies that you have joined a movement of dinosaurs who don't have modern liberal education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention...
...Kingman Brewster Jr. After 14 tumultuous years in New Haven, Brewster opted for London and the United States ambassadorship to England, a position many thought suited him well. With Brewster's departure, the Yale Corporation had a chance to revamp Yale's Waspish image. Hannah E. Gray, Yale's provost and then acting president, was said to be in the running. But one week before the decision was announced, Gray forfeited, accepting an offer to become president of the University of Chicago. Dean Rosovsky, heavily involved in plotting reforms of Harvard's undergraduate education, was offered the office in Woodbridge...
Amiable, scholarly Hanna Gray, 47, looks more like an extension student than the first female president of the University of Chicago. As she settled into office last week, Gray was reminded that back in 1974, while serving as provost of Yale, she had called herself "not the presidential type." Something obviously changed her mind. Said she: "I think it was, actually, being asked...