provost
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“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
Jim Davis, the president there and Will Inboden, who’s the provost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Michael Spence, UCL president and provost, said he recognised that the Covid pandemic had been "incredibly difficult for students" and the university's response was "responsible and robust".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Cal State Channel Islands has received roughly $40 million in HSI grant funding in the last decade, said Jessica Lavariega Monforti, the university’s provost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
“You are the wife of Kostas Vilkas, provost at the university?” asked a man in a suit sitting down from us.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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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
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
Some will mostly keep college provosts up at night.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2021
In the first place, the provosts and bailies—supposed to be always excellent judges of good cheer—are to fix a low and reasonable price at which the wines and other commodities are obtainable.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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