Head of college

The title used varies between colleges, including dean, master, president, principal, provost, rector and warden.

At more centralised universities, the heads of colleges have less power and responsibility.

Heads of colleges will often participate in the governance of the central university.

These have also changed with time, in particularly the recent move away from using master by colleges at Durham,[13] Kent (where the position of head of college was abolished),[14] Rice[15] and Yale[16] universities.

In the case of some older colleges whose statutes are in Latin, the titles used in the modern era are English translations of those found in the statutes, e.g. "provost" for praepositus, and "warden" for custos.