Word: budgets
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...March, the Harvard Corporation announced an eight-percent reduction in the endowment payout to Harvard’s schools—which contributed 56 percent of the FAS budget last year...
...same meeting, Smith projected that the 2011 fiscal year budget would see an additional 12 percent decrease in endowment payments to the school...
...bigger issue is a looming gap in fiscal year ’11,” Smith said yesterday, adding that he has entrusted FAS’ six working groups with the task of recommending budget cuts for the two-year period...
Stephanie H. Kenen, associate dean of undergraduate education, expressed frustration with the task of devising cuts without fully understanding their “sense of scale,” or actual effects on the budget, and requested that Smith provide a guideline to help administrators better correlate cuts with numbers. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter B. Machinist ’66, who expressed concern about the fate of “smaller humanistic fields” that may be in “some peril,” asked Smith to iterate his intellectual priorities...
...increased budget cuts, Harvard’s formal Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language courses have been removed from the curriculum. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures’ “E Series”—a sequence of two beginning courses in these three related languages as well as a more advanced tutorial—has been terminated due to the budget cuts which “left virtually no corner of the FAS untouched,” Julie Buckler, chair of the department, confirmed. Instead, students who demonstrate a need to learn these languages...