Word: dean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter ultimately led to changes in the course, but Hren's section was also given a reminder of just how far removed the top--in the form of B-School Dean John H. McArthur...
...most graduate schools, a dean oversees the institution's academic and administrative life. At the B-School, however, the figure of a concerned leader deeply involved in the daily life of the school yielded to a persona better suited to the business world than academia: to both students and faculty, McArthur is not simply the school's dean--he is its chief executive officer...
...students have characterized the dean as inaccessible and detached from student life, concerned with promoting the B-School and leaving much of its actual management to other administrators...
...traditional model of dean you would find something to do with students--but that's not what [McArthur's] here for," says first-year student Barry Johnson. "He's not accessible by any stretch. McArthur's not a howdy-doody, hand-shaking, walking-around-the-campus kind of dean...
Breakfasts with each of the nine second-year class sections are arranged by the dean each year, say second-year students; but even then McArthur's diffidence and reluctance to speak in public sometimes counteracts his cursory efforts to establish direct communication with students...