Context:
SAN FRANCISCO — The phone call, at home one night last week, came from a student seeking donations for the University of California, San Francisco.
“Well,” Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann told the caller, “I’m actually the chancellor at U.C.S.F.”
The student, seemingly unaware that chancellor meant head of the university,
kept up her pitch: The doctor and her husband had given $5,000 in the past, so how about another donation?
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11profile.html?_r=2&ref=denisegrady