- a variation of dene.
dean
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Unlike many peer institutions, the school doesn’t charge incoming students an enrollment deposit—if you say you are coming, they believe you, said Ashley Pallie, Caltech’s dean of undergrad admissions who helped conceive the fraud squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
As a Yale Sterling Professor and a former dean of Yale Law School, this issue is important to me.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Her academic leadership roles at the university have included those of interim associate dean, associate vice president for Student Success, and associate provost for Student Success, Equity and Innovation, the statement said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
After reporting concerns about harassment to Zhu, associate dean Anissa Rogers was forced to resign, the suit alleged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"It's gone, sir, dean vanished. I was going round drawing all the curtains and the one in the lav—bathroom wasn't there any longer."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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Now she is besieged by an array of faculty, unions and deans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
In the months leading up to the exams, the deans of many of California’s top law schools flagged concerns to the State Bar.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
In 1431, the ecumenical Council of Basel ordered the deans and rectors of churches to expel "frivolities" and "profane abuses" from holy buildings, but implicitly allowed them to take place in the squares outside.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
The cost of cyclotrons already was raising the hackles of academic deans and presidents.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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