Word: deans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This is harder than becoming a dean [at an established institution] in some ways," says one administrator. "[There,] you have baby deans and mini-deans and structures. You don't have to fight for a seat at the table, respect for your school...
Finally, alumnae and potential donors are likely to insist that the new dean be firmly committed to women's and gender studies, or as former Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson liked to put it, "advancing society by advancing women...
...acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, who today becomes the only woman to head one of Harvard's 10 schools, Dunn will guide the new, $350 million Institute through its first critical days of self-definition...
Dunn comes to the helm after a long career in women's education. First a professor of colonial women's history, she became dean of Bryn Mawr College and president of Smith College, and later director of Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library...
That skill will serve her well as the Institute tackles the knotty problems--the future of women's studies, the choice of a permanent dean--that will shape her tenure...