Provost (education)

Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of Vice-Chancellor at certain institutions in the British Isles such as UCL and Trinity College Dublin, and the head of certain smaller colleges (e.g. in Oxbridge: Worcester College, Oxford, King's College, Cambridge). Even within these different types of appointments, the precise role of a provost varies from institution to institution.
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