New York University. College of Arts and Science

Beginning in 1947 and ending in 1962, Thomas Clark Pollock served as dean. William Earl Buckler succeeded Dean Pollock in 1962 and remained in office until 1969. In that year, Richard Bayly Winder became Dean of Washington Square College and presided until 1971. Phillip Mayerson, who had been Vice Dean of Washington Square College from 1969 to 1971, became the Acting Dean from 1971 to 1973. In 1973 he became Dean of Washington Square and University College and served until 1978.

The function of the Office of the Dean at Washington Square College is largely to develop curricula that will enable the urban student to later use this knowledge in teaching, law, medicine, further education, or other types of employment. The Dean's office was created at New York University, as at other colleges, to act as a liaison between administration and students. The dean's challenge is to maintain collegiate and human values in a word of increasing scholarship and specialization. The dean symbolizes the continuance of the "the collegiale way and humanist tradition." Simply, the dean represents the human touch in an organized institution.

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