Word: budgets
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...lower-level House administrators, who spoke to The Crimson on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, say that the areas of House life the Hammonds’ administration has targeted for budget cuts—particularly the possible consolidation of resident deans’ assistants—reflected a deficient knowledge of the House system, which they consider to be “instrumental” to undergraduate life at Harvard...
...many challenges facing the College.” But in multiple interviews with The Crimson over the last month, the Dean’s colleagues in University Hall say that she, like them, never anticipated the slew of obstacles to face the College administration this year: an unprecedented budget crisis, uncertain House Renewal, and traumatic events in the student population, including four undergraduate deaths and a shooting in Kirkland House last month...
...Kidd says that the Dean is “a very strong proponent of the College and holds her own in meetings with FAS.” And though students criticized the timing of budget-cut announcements, which came during Reading Period, McLoughlin says that Hammonds had actually convinced other, higher-level University administrators to disclose the cuts before students left for summer...
...news was sobering University-wide. For the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest school, which comprises about a third of the union’s membership, the news was particularly bleak—FAS relies on endowment funding for over half of its annual budget, third-most among the University’s 11 schools. “A bad day,” Jaeger calls the date when the payout decision was announced. In fact, it was probably more than that: the first clear signal of how difficult it would be for HUCTW...
...over the Faculty, as its leadership struggles to confront an unprecedented budgetary quagmire. The concern reverberates all the more as the school finds itself in the hands of unseasoned administrators—unfamiliar with the sort of fiscal magicking needed to unite a disparate and confused Faculty behind deep budget cuts...