Pauline Nugent is University of Notre Dame Australia’s new provost – she’s not the first (CMM Monday)

Vice chancellor Francis Campbell announced management departures Friday with roles “merged into a newly created role of provost,” (CMM July 27).

The role is new now, but learned readers point out UNDA has previously had a plethora of provosts (sorry) – including a bloke called Greg Craven, who held the role first, as well as being UNDA dean of law.

“What?,” you ask, “not that Greg Craven, now VC of Australian Catholic University? The Greg Craven whose understated opeds on many, many, subjects have appeared for years in The Australian newspaper?” That’s the one.

The provost title was replaced with PVC Academic in 2012, an LR advises.