1.   As Richard Schmalensee, interim dean at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, sees it, Microsoft must innovate or eventually perish.

2.   He also was interim dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

3.   Scott Lang, interim dean of students at Tempe High, already has seen signs of the times to come.

4.   Robert Taggart, a professor of finance at the business school, acted as interim dean during the academic year.

5.   The alternative approach is too slow, said Patrick T. Harker, interim dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

6.   The Rev. George W. MacRae, a Jesuit priest, served as interim dean for several months, but died suddenly of a heart attack.

7.   He has been serving as deputy and interim dean since Thomas P. Gerrity stepped down from the post last July.