Word: provost
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Online gamblers are giving Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy better odds at being named Harvard’s 28th president than any candidate not currently on Harvard’s payroll. But, after publishing an op-ed yesterday calling the reasoning behind Harvard’s decision to eliminate early admission “faulty,” Etchemendy told The Crimson he has no ambitions to leave his post at Stanford...
...Stanford provost did not propose simply to leave early admission policies as they stand now. Instead, he wrote, colleges should “universally adopt nonbinding early admission programs, and then apply the same or higher standards to the early decisions as they do to the regular round. It’s a solution that’s fair for the students and practical for the colleges...
...survey said they were satisfied with “teaching-related issues”—including the courses they taught, the discretion they have over their courses, the size of their classes, and the quality of their interactions with students, according to information provided by the assistant provost for faculty development and diversity, Shawn J. Bohen...
Before taking the helm of HUL, Verba chaired the Government Department and later rose to become associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for undergraduate education. He has also served as associate provost. Today, Verba heads the faculty advisory group of the Presidential Search Committee...
...inter-school course has been “actively supported” by University Provost Steven E. Hyman, whose office provided funding to help invite some of the experts who will be visiting the course, according to Galison...