A rector is a senior official in an educational institution, and can be an official in either a university or a secondary school. Outside the English-speaking world, the rector is often the most senio
Inauguration of Rector Lubomír Dvořák (Palacký University), 2006
Then Rector of the Bologna University, Ivano Dionigi, with then Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi, 2015.
Enrique Graue 34th Rector of the UNAM during his inaugural speech, 2015
Colonnade at the reconstructed Yushima Seidō in Tokyo. The hereditary rectors of this Edo period institution were selected from the Hayashi clan.
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of a university or of a campus within a university system.
Rector (academia)
…official in a university, while in the United States, the highest-ranking officer within a university's academic administration is often referred to as a chancellor or president. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations, a university's chief executive is called vice-chancellor. The term and office of a…
The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten, in procession at encaenia, 2009
E. Gordon Gee, former president of Brown University, Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, and West Virginia University