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.

And, in the middle, was the vice-chancellor, his (or her) power bolstered by senior management teams, executive deans and professional managers.

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.

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.