Word: chancellor
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...tall man in the dark double-breasted suit stood ramrod straight while Edward Koch introduced him at a city hall press conference. Then Richard R. Green, freshly appointed chancellor of the New York City school system, biggest (939,142 students) and arguably the baddest in all the land, said to the mayor, "Why don't you be seated?" Koch complied, like a schoolboy whom the principal has put in his place. And when His Honor tried later to rise, the Big Apple's new headmaster froze him with a turn of the hand...
...original August agreement gave UMass President David Knapp a $20,000 pay raise and Chancellor of the UMass Amherst campus Joseph Duffey a $15,000 raise...
Lashman was appointed chairman of the Regents in June 1986 by Governor Michael S. Dukakis. His appointment was the final chapter in the controversy over Chancellor of Higher Education James Collins, a former state representative, who had been appointed against the wishes of Dukakis. The governor removed Collins from office in 1986 and replaced Regent David Beaubien, the chairman during Collins' appointment, with Lashman...
Since his appointment, Lashman has presided over the selection of Franklyn Jenifer as the new chancellor. The board has also initiated a $1 billion capital improvements project and a new teacher training program. Jenifer has called some of the programs the board has worked on under Lashman's direction "radical in nature," but he said that the work is "designed to move higher education in Massachusetts to among the best in the nation...
Franklyn Jenifer, the new chancellor appointed by the regents, said that compared to other officials he has worked with, Lashman is "second to no one." He added, "He's been a very aggressive, articulate spokesman for higher education...