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Faust’s recent decision to appoint Michael D. Smith, who has, in her words, “been so involved” in life outside the classroom, to the FAS deanship seems to indicate a push to increase the dean’s role in undergraduate life. Smith is chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics Sports at Harvard and worked on a review of life in Cabot House...
...teaching ability and finding scholars in underrepresented areas. We also hope that Faust commits to giving junior faculty—who have traditionally been sent away before they return to get tenure—a better shot at promotion from within. After all, it makes little sense to appoint professors who have already done their best work.On top of all of this, Faust has the opportunity to completely reimagine Harvard’s physical campus in designing its new campus in Allston. She must lead a capital campaign to ensure Harvard’s continued financial security amid a period...
...Appointments have to always be made in conjunction with another department, so it’s difficult to appoint certain kinds of people specializing in an area,” says incoming committee chair Diana...
...After four semesters of missed quorums and lightweight advocacy, the Assembly asked then-Dean of the College John B. Fox, Jr. ’59 to appoint a group of undergraduates and faculty to investigate the state of student governance at the College. Meeting 12 times in the 10 months following its foundation in May 1980, the Committee to Review College Governance—more commonly known as the Dowling committee, after Committee Chairman and Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling ’57—issued its report in March of 1981. Among the recommendations...
Faust must also appoint leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design before she takes office on July...