PROVOST

Provost

A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland or a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at most Australian universities.

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provost

Noun

  1. The equivalent of mayor in some Scottish cities.
  2. A senior academic administrator; sometimes called the Vice-President of Academic Affairs.
  3. The highest position in a monastery below an abbot.
  4. A prison keeper, especially in the military.


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