Word: deanship
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After all of these positions and activities, a deanship was a logical next step. In 1975, he accepted the University of Chicago's offer. As Tosteson notes, "The reward for a job well done is another job." But there was still one more job in the offing. When last fall Tosteson accepted President Bok's offer of appointment to his alma mater, Harvard Medical School, the president of the University of Chicago quickly relieved Tosteson of his posts at Chicago, citing "the potential conflicts of interest in Dr. Tosteson's position as dean-designate of the Harvard Medical School...
Concerning his specific deanship, the new appointee sees his task as one of promoting coherence and a sense of unity among the freshman class, primarily through the serious training of proctors and senior advisers, and increasing the availability of the Freshman Dean's Office itself. He identifies the freshman advising scheme, a perennial can of worms, as one that is "centralized and decentralized at once," in which many students are unaware that the Freshman Dean's Office exists as a source of advice and support for freshman. To many freshmen, the office has been simply a group of faces, sometimes...
...this reason, Moses thinks one of his most important responsibilities is to be highly visible. Fox decided this year to establish the freshman deanship more in the style of House masters--the top men and women in the upperclass Houses who presumably are responsible for the well-being of all the House residents. As a result, Moses and his family now live in a rambling old University house on nearby Francis Ave., the same house Hale Champion, former financial vice-president of the University and now undersecretary of HEW, lived in while he was here, and where Moses hopes...
Since Ebert's appointment to the highest paying University deanship in 1965 he has been active in promoting social medicine and was the leader in developing the Harvard Community Health Plan, a University program that provides health care to Cambridge and Boston area residents...
...does not see the deanship as a position that involves her in the day-to-day management of undergraduate life. Rather, her concern in that capacity is with institutional issues like housing and admissions, and in commissioning research which will help to deal with these issues...