Word: academicization
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FAS has already achieved $4 million of savings in the past six months, and proposals for 15 percent cuts submitted by departments and units would produce a $73 million reduction if approved for the next academic year. But the cuts would eliminate only one third of the overall deficit facing...
Within the next two weeks, Smith said he will appoint six working groups charged with proposing cost-reduction measures for their respective areas in FAS—including the three academic divisions, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the College.
“These are not working groups put there to try to squeeze more efficiency from the system,” said Smith, who stressed that the groups would seek to make academic programs more cost-efficient while maintaining the quality of education.
“I’m looking for these groups to get together and think creatively, outside the box, with respect to how we can do things differently from an intellectual and academic point of view,” Smith added.
“I hope that my research on the impact of the Hajj pilgrimage on the pilgrim will inform the wider academic debate on the nature and interaction of religious and non-religious beliefs in Islam,” he said in the press release.