deans

University department leaders

Deans is the plural of dean, an academic administrator who oversees a college, faculty, or division within a university: The deans met to discuss budget cuts.

Dean also means the senior member of a group: the dean of American sportswriters.

In ecclesiastical contexts, a dean heads a cathedral chapter or group of parishes.

academic

provost

Senior academic administrator

admissions · tenure · curriculum · undergraduate · graduate · campus · students · administration · college · scholarship

ecclesiastical

cathedral

Bishop's principal church

clergy · diocese · bishop · vestry · parish · rector · vicar · chancel · nave · pulpit

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academic hierarchy

deansstudents

Those receiving instruction

freshmen · undergraduates · pupils · graduate students · teaching assistants

institutional role

deansstudents

Those receiving instruction

learners · pupils · enrollees · matriculants · undergraduates

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Family

dean, deanship, deanery

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