Gerald Wilson, a senior associate dean at Duke University who advises prelaw undergraduates, starts by asking students why they want to go to law school.

Her mother is the assistant vice provost for academic affairs and senior associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Michigan.

On 24 March 1728-9 he was elected to a fellowship at his college, and ultimately became its senior dean and one of the two principal tutors.

The code has evolved since the system was put into place five years ago, said Dan Nelson, senior associate dean of students.

"The first three to four months of any professional education are critical," said Thomas R. Piper, senior associate dean for educational programs.

"We don't think of ourselves as competing with other schools," said Mr. Light, a senior associate dean, when asked to name Harvard's closest rival.

He was tutor 1819-30, bursar 1822, and senior dean 1842.

Prior to his current appointment, he was a professor and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School.

The course director of physiology, who chooses materials for the class, as well as the senior associate dean for education are women.

In 1625 White became senior dean of Sion College, London, which existed then only on paper.