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Faculty members confronted Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith yesterday with a barrage of questions about recently implemented budgeting measures that will grant him more authority than ever before in determining where FAS centers direct their funds.
“The governance of the centers has always been in the hands of the faculty associated with them in partnership with FAS,” said Susan J. Pharr, director of Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. According to Pharr, Smith had reassured center leaders...
The new budgeting strategy, known as the “first-dollar principle,” requires that departments and centers spend their restricted funds according to thus far unspecified FAS “core principles.” Since area study centers—such as the Center for...
The new policy will push centers to “not just be a faculty bastion, a little enclave away from the university,” he added.