provost

He became a dean at Cornell in 2007 and provost in 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Today he serves as provost professor of humanities and arts at USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Universities really need to develop a vision of what we do, what we teach, how we teach it, what research we do, how we do it,” Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“A lot of them are essentially independent contractors, so it’s a slightly different trajectory than someone who goes to an engineering program,” said Michael Bryant, interim provost at CalArts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

David Korn, vice provost for research at Harvard University, argues that giving patients control over their tissues is shortsighted.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

This forces department chairs, deans, provosts and research vice presidents to own the veracity of every proposed publication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

We, the authors, served as three of the five permanent or interim provosts and chief academic officers at WSU from 2008-20.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

Professors and provosts and college presidents, with new backing from federal financial aid, are reaching into prisons to connect with inmates who are hungry to learn.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022

The study added that between 1636 and 1834, 79 lord provosts were nominated to Glasgow Town Council, 40 of whom had connections to Atlantic slavery and others who owned enslaved people.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2022

In a MS. account of the provosts it is stated, "the first volume of his discourses, published by Lord Shaftesbury, 1698;" and that one of his brothers was alive in 1749, at Finchley, aged 96.

From Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 by Various