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Kosslyn has served as chair since 2005, and from 2006-2007 was the co-coordinator of the Caucus of Chairs, an informal body of department heads that became an influential player in FAS politics during the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...divisional deans were criticized for “insert[ing] an additional layer for chairs to work through, without providing power and help of their own,” according to the minutes of a Sept. 2005 meeting of the Caucus of Chairs...
...Contacted early this week for comment, one department chair gave no indication that the Caucus had entirely changed its tune...
...think within the Caucus of Chairs there have been quite divided opinions about the utility of divisional deans,” the chair said. “There are some people who aren’t sure whether it’s a good idea to maintain the divisional deans...
...first major administrative overhaul since he took office last summer, and they mark the culmination of a lengthy administrative review process that he launched in the fall with the help of paid consultants. Much of the content of the remarks to the Faculty had previously been presented to the Caucus of Chairs, an informal but influential body of FAS department heads and committee chairs that was formed in 2005 and that strongly criticized the divisional deanships and administrative expansion in the fall of that year...