Word: deans
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Compared to the Class of 2003, Harvard's number of early action applicants jumped by 31.8 percent. The Brown Daily Herald reports that Brown experienced a 58 percent overall increase in applicants. According to Georgetown's Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon, 46 percent more students have applied early to Georgetown...
Officials say none of Harvard's 10 schools--including the graduate schools and FAS--have ever been led by a minority dean...
...highest levels of its 10 schools, Harvard has had only one minority dean without "assistant," or "associate" in his title, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti. But because his department is within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, even Narayanamurti isn't technically on the level of the dean of the Divinity School or Graduate School of Education...
...Rudenstine appointed a black woman, Linda Darling-Hammond, as dean of the Graduate School of Education. After first accepting the position, however, Darling-Hammond turned it down before taking office...
...initial refusal to investigate the magazine deal. Parks says that after hearing their "candid counsel," he changed his mind. Journalism watchdogs see the incident as a cautionary tale. "People coming into publishing from other businesses just don't get the perishable nature of editorial credibility," says Orville Schell, dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley...