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...said he has only been to one meeting so far this academic year, had his own idea about how to deal with the problem. “Why not make it a hundredth?” he quipped. “Then they could just do it in the Dean??s office.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
Knowles arrived at a time of budgetary crisis, with annual deficits near $10 million. He deemed himself a “wet-weather dean?? and vowed to rein in spending...
Indeed, Knowles quickly built a reputation as a dean of many words. He introduced the first illustrations to the annual dean??s letter, annotating his lengthy missives with detailed financial and enrollment data. (His last letter, in February 2007, took 20 pages and 23 footnotes to say what amounted to a handful of words on the hiring of science professors...
Though his faculty was strapped for cash in the beginning his deanship, Knowles took incremental steps that would prove critical a decade later. He wired dorms and offices with Internet connections in 1996, earlier than most universities. He formed committees to examine the College dean??s office—which led to a restructuring under former FAS dean William C. Kirby—and the hiring of female professors...
...granddaughter Daina S. Anhalt ’11 said that it was important that the Harvard community hear his account. “My grandfather’s message is both urgent and universal,” said Anhalt, who organized the event—sponsored by the Freshman Dean??s Office, the Harvard Foundation, Harvard Hillel, and the Faith & Life Forum—after a few of her friends expressed an interest in her grandfather’s story. While Burian expressed the importance of sharing his memories, he also said that hearing them...