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By action of lawmakers or trustees, a new president can be imposed on a campus with a mandate to return the school to its proper mission by appointing subordinate administrators, especially deans, committed to reform.

But their report did state that Yale, and particularly university leaders such as deans and department heads, should not make statements on matters of public importance.

The university president, Mark Welsh, put the dean of the school of arts and sciences and the head of the English department on leave before resigning himself.

He put it down to "my mother knowing the dean of admissions".

Brian Strow, an economist and dean of the business school at Florida’s Palm Beach Atlantic University, told me by email that cutting off a natural supply of the world’s top innovators and thinkers is self-defeating.