Word: backgrounder
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...case at Oxford or Cambridge, where academics have a majority on both universities' executive bodies. Hood, a New Zealander with a background in business, is Oxford's first vice-chancellor to be chosen from outside the University. In late 2006, when he proposed giving lay members a slim majority on a new governing council responsible for non-academic matters, the idea was turned down by the Congregation, the parliament of Oxford dons. In the scramble to catch up with wealthier U.S. colleges, the dons' power could discourage potential benefactors. "A governing body dominated by academic members of a university," says...
...Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Rihanna's Umbrella played in the background as Faust mingled and talked with those present, pausing to shake hands and pose for pictures...
Last summer, Denzel Washington directed and starred in “The Great Debaters,” which featured scenes in Sanders Theatre and with Harvard’s campus in the background...
...course, depend for their success on the French respect for rationalism (and their horror when reason is torn asunder by criminal irrationality). They are also greatly enhanced by the firm, but casually stated, French respect for life's realities. A drama like Tell No One takes place against a background in which ordinary people walk their dogs, take their children to play in the park or share a casual meal - and are utterly astonished when the police sirens sound and desperate characters rush by waving guns...
Singer will also advise the president and provost on tenure decisions, as well as find ways to evaluate and improve the campus climate for women and minorities using data collection and analysis, methodologies that reflect her academic background...