Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Spence, chairman of the Economics Department, will step into big shoes when he assumes the deanship of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the end of the academic year...
During the 1950s, McGeorge Bundy assumed the deanship at the age of 34, making him the youngest dean ever. He supervised the expansion of Harvard into a major research university, in response to the nation's growing need for professional graduates. Bundy became President John F. Kennedy'40's national security adviser, and later the head of the Ford Foundation...
University sources said last week that the chairman of the Economics Department. A. Michael Spence, is apparently a leading candidate for the deanship. Spence refused comment last week, and could not be reached for comment last night...
More visible professors with a shot at the deanship may conceivably have been hampered by fostering the sort of disapproval that a high profile inevitably produces...
...important factor is considering a scientist for the deanship is that the job would mean dealing his career in research, given the breakneck development of scientific discoveries today. For this reason, professor's say, a scientist would probably the more length than a humanist to put aside his academic career for five to 10 years to take on the deanship...