What's the difference between dean and provost?

Dean


Definition:

  • (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
  • (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
  • (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
  • (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
  • (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (3) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
  • (4) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (5) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
  • (6) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
  • (7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
  • (8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
  • (9) The appearance of the enamel of their permanent teeth was assessed 11 years later (children aged 12-15 years) and recorded using Dean's and the FDI indices.
  • (10) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
  • (11) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
  • (12) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
  • (13) Dean's system, however, has several shortcomings, principally its inability to measure fluorosis in different tooth surfaces.
  • (14) As dean of the Medical Faculty (1930-1931) or prodean (1931-1932) he had to resolve under complicated conditions of the general economic crisis many difficult problems of its further development and concept.
  • (15) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
  • (16) 98, 491-505 (1984)] and G. L. Rice, J. W. Gray, P. N. Dean, and W. C. Dewey [Cancer Res.
  • (17) During the 1982-83 academic year, ten members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions through the year 1991.
  • (18) Separately, in February a group of junior doctors at Tameside privately raised a number of concerns with the postgraduate medical dean for Greater Manchester, Jackie Hayden.
  • (19) Neighbor Dean McDaniel said he’d known the family for nearly 17 years, and remembered Abdulazeez as an elementary school student and teenager.
  • (20) Responses from faculty (nominated by their deans to answer the survey) from 82% of the medical schools indicated considerable agreement between the basic science teachers and clinical teachers on the relative importance of a set of biomedical concepts, and showed relatively minor levels of disagreement on how difficult these concepts are.

Provost


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.
  • (n.) The keeper of a prison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was very careful that his many other activities did not interfere with his duties as provost, whether it was his role in the Lords or whether it was as the author of the committee on the future of broadcasting report, always known as the Annan Report, (published in 1977).
  • (2) Professor Malcolm Grant, chair The president and provost of University College London, he is described by a colleague as having "a brain the size of a planet and is a natural leader – clear and very challenging of assumptions, but in a constructive way – who understands how to take organisations forward.
  • (3) Photograph: Claire Provost She compares the companies that have moved into her area to the Spanish conquistadors who invaded America.
  • (4) Literary Scholar and Provost, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
  • (5) Briggs would return to Worcester as the college’s provost on leaving Sussex in 1976, retiring in 1991.
  • (6) Seven kilometres out into the azure waters of the Adriatic, the Provost – the head of a top-secret organisation called the Cornsortium, which specialised in contriving idiotic plotlines – stood at the prow of his 237m yacht, the Mendacium.
  • (7) It was in 2001, during the storm over the Quality Assurance Agency, when I realised that the five chiefs (aka vice-chancellors, rector, director and provost) had captured all the alphabet agencies, including not just the QAA but also the RAE (research assessment exercise), the HEFCs (the higher education funding councils), the SLC (the Student Loans Company), the Hesa (Higher Education Statistics Agency) and now Offa.
  • (8) She was born in Ayrshire in 1970 and grew up near Irvine with parents who rarely discussed politics, and who were politicised by their daughter (her mother is now an SNP councillor and provost of North Ayrshire) rather than the other way around.
  • (9) In 2000, she became the first woman appointed to run any English cathedral when she was promoted to provost of Leicester Cathedral, a small, unfashionable place.
  • (10) Army police and provosts (military personnel responsible for security and detention) were excluded last November after the appeal court said it was "impossible to avoid the conclusion that IHAT lacks the requisite independence".
  • (11) We need to support them.” But Prof Michael Arthur, president and provost of University College London (UCL), which has 4,500 EU students who make up 12% of the student body, fears his university – in common with others – will lose a significant proportion of EU undergraduates if Britain votes to leave Europe on 23 June.
  • (12) As provost of King's, Annan made an effort to attract boys from the maintained grammar schools.
  • (13) Children get to sit in a Jet Provost cockpit and soar through the sky in a dogfight in the 4D cinema (£4).
  • (14) The Gi alpha homolog could not be detected in head membranes by Western blotting, consistent with the negligible levels of expression observed for Gi alpha on Northern blots of head mRNA (Provost et al., 1988).
  • (15) Asa Briggs obituary Read more His academic career took him far and wide, but it was at Worcester College, Oxford, as fellow and later provost, that he felt the strongest sense of place.
  • (16) Career: Educated at Queen's School, Chester; St Hilda's College, Oxford; also at St John's College, Nottingham and the Open University; taught in India 1977-1979; youth worker at Shrewsbury House, Liverpool, 1979; ordained as a deaconess in 1982, worked at St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill; chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge, 1985-90 (became a deacon in 1987); chaplain at Gloucester Cathedral, 1990-94; ordained as a priest in 1994; canon pastor and then also vice provost, Coventry Cathedral, 1994-2000; provost (the first woman provost in the Church of England) then dean of Leicester 2000–12; member of the General Synod, 2003-12; dean of York 2012-present.
  • (17) Cologne Cathedral provost Norbert Feldhoff, told n-tv that shutting down the lights was an attempt to make the Pegida demonstrators think twice about their protest.
  • (18) The flight crew was met on the tarmac by a delegation which included Moore, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon and Edinburgh's lord provost George Grubb.
  • (19) Michael Arthur, provost of University College London and a member of the UK's Medical Research Council,and professor David Nutt, the government's former drug advisor who now runs neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, also voiced their concerns over the impact of a Pfizer takeover on UK science research.
  • (20) Thank you very much for giving me the thanks through … your appearance and all the things you have said.” The degree presented to Yunupingu is the highest given by the university and is awarded “infrequently”, university provost Margaret Sheil said.