Word: deanship
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Knowles told The Crimson yesterday that he had long felt his departure from the deanship should shortly follow the selection of a new University president...
When the opportunity for a wink, a smile, and seamless progress did not exist, Knowles was not afraid to cross colleagues who failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he deployed Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff to oversee Linguistics in 1993 and Sanskrit in 1995, and just last year named Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to take over Visual and Environmental Studies after removing the prior chair, Ellen Phelan, when she refused to resign...
Former FAS deans have come to the position with a variety of backgrounds—while some have served as department chairs, others have risen to the deanship straight from the rank and file of the Faculty...
...scholar with very distinguished publications, and proven administrative ability from his previous experience at the University of Chicago,” said Dean of Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye, “I’m looking forward to working with him over the next several years of my deanship...
...Professors point to Knowles’ establishment of the MacFarquhar committees as unofficial hand-picked bodies, his distaste for vocal dissent, and his decisive, often unexpected intervention in departments as examples of a deanship that is as autocratic as it is diplomatic...