Confront dean concealing university's apparent worth (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
face value
'apparent worth' is the definition.
(worth something appears to have)
'confront dean concealing university's' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'confront' could be 'face' (synonyms) and 'face' is located in the answer.
'university' could be 'u' (abbreviation for university) and 'u' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'vale' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for face value that I've seen before include "what it's apparently worth" , "not an excessive price" , "Amount as printed or stamped on money or other object" , "Apparent worth" , "really not worth it?" .)