After a year-long search, a new executive dean of agriculture and natural resources has been named at Rutgers University and will begin work Monday.
She also served as the executive dean at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government from 2000 to 2005.
In 1963, he was named executive dean of arts and sciences at New York University.
At Northwestern, for example, "we have taken over nearly everything that has been abandoned," said the executive dean, Raymond Atcheson.
In 1965, he moved east to join the State University of New York system as its first executive dean.
Dr. Roxy Lefforge, an American Methodist missionary, was the first executive dean.
The university is divided into faculties, managed by an executive dean and governed by a Faculty Board comprising all professors and lecturers.
His mother is the executive administrative dean at Touro College in Manhattan.
During his tenure in that position, the position of executive dean evolved into a separate free-standing office with oversight of five colleges and forty-one departments.
In 1965, he moved east to join the vast SUNY system as its first executive dean.