Word: dean
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...some, Smith’s unflappable nature is a steadying force in the midst of a financial maelstrom. Faust praised her handpicked dean as one whose guiding hand has been “very steady at a time that has been one of great pressure.” Unfazed even as students and staff noisily protested outside the windows of University Hall during the year’s last Faculty meeting, the computer science professor has a distinctively scientific—perhaps even stoic—approach to the difficulties of the budgetary crisis...
...have people who work with you and work for you so you don’t have to literally know absolutely everything,” Pilbeam says about the role of FAS dean. “But you certainly have to give the impression...
...role of a dean certainly has a public face to it. You have to represent the faculty to the outside world,” Pilbeam says. “Ultimately, what you say and how you say it is yours...
...After the University learned that the endowment had fallen a precipitous 22 percent in December, Smith devoted the bulk of the two subsequent Faculty meetings to explaining the looming budgetary shortfall with powerpoints and hand-written figures—a function that professors came to expect in their dean...
...helm, the honeymoon phase has passed, and there is growing impatience at the vagueness “reshaping” has come to represent. “There are a lot of open questions at this point,” Hamburger says. “I wish Dean Smith well...