Word: deanship
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Lewis was an obvious candidate for the deanship after having co-written an influential report in 1994 that listed 45 specific recommendations on how to improve the structure of the College...
Seven years later, Lewis has appointed the current Masters of nine of the 12 Houses, hired countless senior tutors and reformed the deanship so he is clearly first in command...
...road to a powerful deanship, Lewis has not shied away from confrontation, frankly telling people when he disagrees with them and firing those who do not fit into his plan...
Lewis says that when he first assumed the deanship, faculty were worried that their world “had gotten divorced” from the part of the College that dealt with residential and extracurricular student life. He has sought to bring together undergraduate, academic and residential lives by hiring academically distinguished Masters and senior tutors and by attempting to improve academic advising in the Houses...
Kirby said he had spoken with Summers about the deanship several times during the course of the search...