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...administration has made important progress in incorporating student opinion into this difficult process. Now it remains up to students and the community to make sure this bank can keep FAS from going bankrupt...
Announced on September 15th at an open forum meeting conducted by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, the Idea Bank, now in its second week of existence, also includes a feature by which site visitors can comment and rank the proposals that have been posted. A “Top rated ideas” tab on the site brings users directly to a list of proposals that have received the highest user rankings on a five star scale...
...Harvard Idea Bank is not the first of its kind. MIT launched a tool with a design uncannily similar to Harvard’s several months ago as part of its attempt to cut operating expenses, recognizing that “the work to sculpt a stronger MIT will require collective wisdom and collaborative action...
None of the ideas on the Idea Bank site have yet been implemented, because it has only been a short period since the site was launched, wrote FAS spokesman Jeff Neal in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday. Neal added that the highly rated recommendations deposited on the Idea Bank will be reviewed by the working groups currently tasked with considering ways to cut costs in the various FAS divisions...
...Idea Bank is one more way we are trying to engage the entire FAS and Harvard College community as we all consider how to best advance our core mission of teaching and research in a more efficient and cost-effective manner,” the Web site reads...