dean

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Perry Zirkel, a disability-law scholar and former Lehigh University dean, said the need for testing accommodations for truly disabled students is real, but he worries about unfairness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

“I don’t think it should have ever gotten to a jury trial,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and an expert on the 1st Amendment, which also protects the platforms.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the famous detective during his younger years, Mamma Mia actor Firth plays Sir Bucephalus Hodge, the dean of Oxford University, where Holmes is a porter.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

In addition, the Syracuse dean said the dollar amounts involved are at a scale that Customs and Border Protection “has never processed.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

It was too late to visit the dean of Tuskegee, so I went to the bus station and boarded a bus for Atlanta, via Auburn, Alabama.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin