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...won’t really help,” says Lamont, who serves on the committee within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is coordinating efforts with the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. “It’s really a question, I think, of the creation of...the infrastructure that will ensure greater [equality]. And that’s not necessarily flashy work.” The task force reports recommended that the new senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity be permitted to review appointment files and participate in tenure ad hoc committee meetings...
...creation of the new Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (we’ll call it SEAS) reflects this chaotic legacy. With characteristic indecision, the school will be the only separate school within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), yet its undergraduate admissions policies and administrative operations will remain under FAS control. It is, in effect, a department in all but name...
This change will be accompanied by a tangible increase in faculty numbers, but such resources could also be added without the creation of a separate school. To pretend that both are linked, as University Provost Steve E. Hyman did in a May 25 press release, is theatrical and misleading. The creation of SEAS is cosmetic, designed to increase the visibility of FAS in the face of competition from other, more prominent engineering schools. It is dictated by advertising, not even by industrial imperatives...
...even if the creation of SEAS is superficial, the idea it embodies is very real...
...appreciate this, one must situate the creation of SEAS within a national context. Today, most of American higher education favors specialization, not generalization. Whereas in 1970 more than half of baccalaureate degrees were awarded in a liberal arts discipline, by 1995 that number had declined to nearly 40 percent. This suggests that the liberal arts model in America is in decline, and the creation of SEAS is ominous when seen in this context. It is a step, however small, in that direction...