At the end of Sunday's service, Williams was presented with a set of five porcelain bowls created by ceramic artist Edmund de Waal, the son of a former dean of Canterbury, by the current dean, the Very Rev Robert Willis.
The task force will be co-led by Andrew Moore, the current dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and Robert O. Work, who was deputy defense secretary from 2014-2017 and formerly CEO of CNAS.
They have targeted him since he came to power in 2009 by defeating Tom Craddick of Midland, the current dean of the House, who was the first Republican to lead the lower chamber in more than a century.
The change in approach, said Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, the current dean, reflected an observation made decades earlier by Dr. Charles Sidney Burwell, who was dean from 1935 to 1949.
"He changed the way we thought of public health," said Dr. Linda Rosenstock, the current dean of the Fielding School.
She had been second in command at the school since 2009, and will replace the current dean Robert Mittelstaedt in March.
Dr. Norman Edelman, the current dean, said Dr. Kuschner's wit and charm helped him lure faculty members from other schools.
Acosta, the current dean of Florida International University College of Law, has been previously confirmed for other positions that required confirmation in the Senate.
The current Dean of the Chapel is Alison Boden, who is also Dean of Religious Life at Princeton.
"But having just come from a two-day meeting of new and current deans organized by the American Bar Association, I can tell you that some law schools pay 25 or even 30 percent".
