Academic ranks in the United States

Deans (often also Full Professors)
Associate Deans (often also Full Professors )
Assistant Dean (Usually Associate Professors)
Directors of Administrative Departments
Associate/Assistant Directors of Administrative Departments
Chairs or Heads of Academic Departments
America's system of higher education is highly variable, with each of the 50 states and the 6 non-
state jurisdictions regulating its own public tertiary institutions, and with each private institution
developing its own structure. In general, the terms "President" and "Chancellor" are
interchangeable (like "Premier" and "Prime Minister"), including the vice presidents, associate and
assistant vice presidents, and so on. The dominant paradigm is president, vice president, associate
vice president, and assistant vice president.
Some university systems or multi-campus universities use both titles, with one title for the chief
executive of the entire system and the other for the chief executives of each campus. Which title
refers to which position can be highly variable from state to state or even within a state. In
California, for example, the chief executive officer of the entire California State University system
of 23 campuses is called "Chancellor" while the CEO of each individual campus is called
"President" — thus, there is an officer called "Chancellor of the California State University", and
there is the "President of San Francisco State University". In the University of California, by
contrast, the terms are reversed — thus, there is the "President of the University of California", and
below that person in the hierarchy is the "Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles",
and so on.
The term 'Warden' is almost never used in the United States in an academic sense. Where it is
used, it typically means "provost" or "dean".
Deans may head an individual college, school or faculty; or they may be deans of the student body,
or a section of it (e.g., the dean of students in a law school); or they may be deans of a particular
functional unit (e.g., Dean of Admissions, or Dean of Records); or they may be deans of a
particular campus, or (unusually) of a particular building (e.g., a university with an elaborate
performing arts complex might designate a very senior administrative faculty member as "Dean of
the [Name] Performing Arts Center".
Academic department heads and chairs serve the same function, and there may also be associate
and assistant department heads or chairs (though this is unusual). In medical schools,
departments may be divided into sections or divisions by subspecialty, each with its own section
chief or division chief.
Academic ranks in Canada
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List of academic ranks
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