Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

Président du Comité de Direction et le Directeur Général...

English translation:

the Governor of the Board of Regents and the President

Added to glossary by Katia Saint-Peron
Mar 26, 2006 18:27
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French term

Président du Comité de Direction et le Directeur Général...

French to English Other Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs Engineering Degree
It's on a French (France) engineering Degree: "Le Président du Comité de Direction et le Directeur Général de l'Ecole Supérieure X... certifient que..." and then both sign at the bottom of the document.

I was thinking of "Chairman of the Board of Directors" for the former and "the Director General" for the latter, but was wondering whether "Chairman of the Board of Faculty" might not be better, and... can the "Directeur Général" be the "Dean"?

Thanks in advance for your help.

The degree was delivered by a French "Grande Ecole", not a university.

Discussion

Katia Saint-Peron (asker) Apr 3, 2006:
Restating I would like to make something clear to all, as I fear now on rereading that my rather off-hand, quick comment to Dee Braig while closing the question may perhaps be misinterpreted by some. As written in her answer below, she specifically asked me not to award her any points as she was in fact overseeing the project. She only posted her answer so that I could enter it into the Proz glossary for the use of all in the future. In conversation, however, she admitted she wasn't sure whether the system allowed for an initial "points" question to be closed without awarding any points at all, in which case she instructed me to give her the strictest minimum amount of points possible, which I did. Ms. Braig is a professional translator highly respectful of and commited to the Proz community, so please do not misunderstand my closing comment: though Ms. Braig asked for no points at all I was forced by the system to give her one. However, though she deems this highly unfair, and I would gladly have given her none according to her own wish, I personally feel she deserved that small token of thanks for her extensive research in a field that is difficult and hazy for many translators. Hopefully her answer will be helpful to many more translators in the future.
Katia Saint-Peron (asker) Mar 26, 2006:
Yes, quite, two different signatures.
Karine Gentil Mar 26, 2006:
Is it two different people?

Proposed translations

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the Governor of the Board of Regents and the President

Hi, I'm basing this on

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/president/welcome.html
and
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/about.html

This answer is "not-for-points", as I am the editor [and principal] for Katia's job. She posted her question on my advice after lengthy research, and this morning I came up with this after *additional* lengthy research, and this is what I am using in the final version [hate these jobs!].

US EN was required as it is the clent's corporate policy.

***KATIA, please add these terms to the Glossary [this option is presented when you come to award points/close the question***

Thank you very much for your help.

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Note added at 6 days (2006-04-02 16:22:36 GMT) Post-grading
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Katia, I asked for NO POINTS, please!!

Dee
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1 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "As asked, awarded one point for your extensive research. :)"
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President and Director

to give the idea and leave the original as well - since there is no direct equivalent
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Dean of Administrations and Dean/Principal

The first one takes care of the administration department of the school and the second would be the actual principal of the school that takes care of the day to day activities within the school
Usually these terms are used in a school of higher education such as colleges, universities so forth. These schools are usually broken down into sub schools ie Law School; Medical School, etc.
Many high schools which may be run by a religious entity (such as a church) will also have one person who takes care of administrations and another who actually is a principal.
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