Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROVOST NEEDED...
...these terms is defined in terms of President Kingman Brewster. Jr., of Yale, or someone like him. If no such new President can be found for Harvard, the argument goes, then-and only then-should the structure of the Harvard Presidency be altered by the creation of a Provost in charge of academic affairs...
...therefore be useful to point out that Yale has a University Provost, who is described in the By-Laws of Yale University as the "chief educational officer" of the University. The post has been filled for some years by Professor Charles Taylor. Brewster himself was Yale Provost before becoming President. The existence of the Office of the Provost relieves the President from a great number of duties. Of course, it neither prevents nor exempts the President from being concerned with the educational affairs of the University, and the Yale case supports this part of the argument as well. An autonomous...
...Cornell Board of Trustees surveyed students over the summer about possible choices for president. In September it selected Cornell Provost Dale R. Corson as Perkin's successor...
Some Faculty members who generally favor the idea of having a University Provost (and perhaps still another major officer to conduct fund-raising campaigns) feel that if the new President were acceptable in general-and to many this means an image closer to Kingman Brewster than to Nathan Pusey-it would not be necessary that the President's office be formally split...