<P> In Nepal, universities have a chancellor as ceremonial head . The de facto head of the university is the vice-chancellor . The chancellor is primarily responsible for attending the convocation programmes and accepting the resignation and appointment letter of a new vice-chancellor . Generally, the prime minister is considered the chancellor, and in his absence, the minister of education acts as the chancellor . </P> <P> In the United States, heads of colleges and universities are typically called "president ." A multi-campus university system may be headed by a chancellor who serves as system - wide chief, with presidents governing individual institutions: for example, the City University of New York . There are also some university systems, such as the North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and California university systems, in which those two titles are reversed . At Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, which is a single unified university with three campuses, the chief officers of the two smaller campuses at Camden and Newark are called chancellors, a renaming from "provost ." Rutgers University itself has a president as the chief officer . </P> <P> Presidents are the functional chief executive officers of most standalone U.S. universities; however, a few universities, such as Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh, have a chancellor as the chief executive officer . There are occasional other uses of the title chancellor . The College of William & Mary uses chancellor in the British sense, as a figurehead leader, but the actual executive of the school is the "president," not a "vice-chancellor ." Some schools, such as Lubbock Christian University, give the ceremonial title of "chancellor" to a retiring university president . The Catholic University of America is headed by a president (formerly "rector"), with the Archbishop of Washington serving as chancellor, a ceremonial position but one which does require the archbishop to represent the university before the Holy See . This scenario, while not always exactly duplicated, is typical in other Catholic universities due to the Catholic hierarchy . In some schools run by Catholic religious orders, the rector of the community supersedes the president when the individual is a member of that religious order . </P> <P> The title "chancellor" is sometimes used in K - 12 education in a sense similar to superintendent of schools, particularly in urban school districts . The New York City Schools Chancellor is the chief executive officer of the New York City Department of Education, which manages the city's public school system (the largest in the United States). The leader of the District of Columbia Public Schools system is also referred to as the chancellor . </P>

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