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  • a variation of dene.
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dean

[deen] / din /


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Last week, Harvard College’s former dean criticized university presidents’ remarks during a congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, arguing that Gay and others couldn’t articulate the mission and purpose of a university.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

Mr. Deptula is dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a retired U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Nitin Nohria, the former dean of Harvard’s business school and now executive chairman of Thrive, recalls Kushner approaching him after Trump’s first election in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

A Syracuse spokeswoman said she wasn’t aware of Tavares’s recommendations on attracting international students and said the dean of admissions at that time is no longer at the university.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Later that afternoon, after wandering around the town, I turned back toward the Institute to talk with the dean.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Now she is besieged by an array of faculty, unions and deans.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

As part of the role, monarchs are responsible for approving the appointment of archbishops, bishops and deans on the recommendation of the prime minister.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2026

If the State Bar returned to the Multistate Bar Exam and California essays for the July exam, the deans said, they would offer spaces on their campuses to the agency at no cost.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2025

“Provisional licensure would allow candidates with offers of employment contingent on bar passage to retain them,” the deans wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2025

Twelve o’clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and...whew, it was one o’clock!

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank




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