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But even as Smith successfully trims a daunting budget deficit, his approach has struck a nervous chord among faculty members who benefit from the incongruent academic and spending methods of the school. Led by affiliates of some of the traditionally independent FAS centers, they have voiced concerns that an overarching...
In FAS, decentralization is epitomized by a spate of centers and institutes. Developed across the school in the last 50 years, these hubs, many of them interdisciplinary, are composed of faculty members and affiliates with shared interests and the funds to act on them—distinct from degree-granting...
“It’s the capacity for good ideas to come from the Faculty and gain the support of deans,” says Kirby, who left his position as dean to head the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies in 2006. “It encourages what...
Blackbourn joined a series of professors affiliated with area-study centers—whose academic goals are focused on a particular region—who approached the microphone to address Smith and the faculty members who were present.
Wielding the power of the purse, Smith has sought to channel spending and reconcile a “disconnect” between academic and budgetary planning that he described in last year’s Dean’s report.