Word: core
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...focus on core priorities dates back to the summer of 2008, when FAS established a commitment to what the FAS Planning website broadly labels “essential curricular needs, intellectual priorities that will strengthen departments and centers, and interdisciplinary collaboration...
Like Smith’s rhetoric, the actual identity of these so-called “core priorities” have been vague, and budgetary decisions are being fleshed out in direct coordination between the administration and individuals units...
...There will be more central planning,” says History of Art and Architecture Professor Robin E. Kelsey, who serves on the Faculty Council, the highest governing board of FAS. “The different parts of FAS will need to justify their activities with respect to the core mission of the school...
...least a $35 million deficit, the FAS budget office communicated the new budgeting approach to the community in the month leading to the March Faculty meeting. The policy required affiliated FAS units—including centers—to fall into line and justify that all their expenditures serve core FAS priorities...
...past, certain centers had exercised a great deal of autonomy in spending funds allocated by donors towards their fields. But with his fresh emphasis on the “core priorities” of FAS, Smith was now essentially prescribing the areas in which units ought to spend...