Word: provost
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...ATTEMPT to organize a student response, the Undergraduate Assembly scheduled a one-hour rally for March 3 to protest the elimination of theater and hockey programs. The rally took place in front of College Hall, the building that houses the offices of the president and the provost. Everything was proceeding smoothly and the crowd of more than 800 listened to speakers and chanted slogans excoriating the administration's decision...
Meeting with provost Eliot Stellar, the students demanded that President Martin Meyerson return from his vacation in Barbados and sit down to negotiate with them. This, the first of their demands, was promptly met, and Meyerson flew in the next night to being the talks...
Probably the most important demand-- providing student representation on the board of trustees--will never come to pass. The president and provost agreed to endorse a compromise resolution calling for the board to add one student and one faculty representative, both with voting rights, to its membership--but the proposal must be approved by a vote of the full board before going into effect...
When Yale Provost Hanna Holborn Gray was named acting president of the university last May, she became a strong candidate to succeed Kingman Brewster. Before being named U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Brewster himself had followed that very route, vaulting from provost to president. Gray's credentials, moreover, were solid. As provost she was Yale's first top-ranked woman administrator. Before that she served as one of the university's first two women trustees. But last week Hanna Gray, 47, took herself out of the tight competition for the top job at Yale in a most positive...
Hannah H. Gray, Yale's provost, became acting president when Brewster left and was considered a top candidate for the post. But early this week she accepted an offer to become president of the University of Chicago, an apparent indication that her prospects at Yale had diminished...