provost
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I think Santiago Schnell, the new provost at Dartmouth is a really special guy and he’s a quantitative biologist, which is a hard thing to think about.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Paul Gigot: Those guys usually don’t get to be provost.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
“The grants and the scholarships will absolutely help” with enrollment and retention, said Heather Lattimer, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Cal State L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
“A UC degree, that has proven to pay dividends, is the gold standard for public higher education,” Han Mi Yoon-Wu, UC’s associate vice provost for systemwide undergraduate admissions, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal’s building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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