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...FlyBy guesses The World's Thinking whether Harvard really needs to be paying for the trademark "Pocket Mentor" with more professors leaving the Faculty than joining it, sections growing larger, and professors raising the alarm that departments may get consolidated as a result of Dean Smith's call to "reshape...
...Computer Science Professor and former Dean of the College Harry Lewis pointed out in an interview last week, there is one area where Harvard might be able to trim the fat: paying for trademarks. Take a look at the bottom of Harvard's homepage, www.harvard.edu, under "Trademark notice." Apparently the Provost's Office is paying good money to maintain or apply for the following trademarks...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith recently appointed six working groups to oversee what he has called the “reshaping” of different sections of FAS, which is set to run an annual deficit of over $143 million that administrators hope to close by July 2011. According to University President Drew G. Faust, the purpose of the working groups is to come up with ideas for “structural changes,” which could include “better ways of sharing” administrative duties...
...humanities faculty member, who requested anonymity because the names have not been announced yet, said that the faculty members of the humanities working group are Homi Bhabha, James Engell, Anne C. Shreffler, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Jan M. Ziolkowski, and Humanities Divisional Dean Diana Sorensen, who will chair the working group...
...Former Dean of the Faculty and Professor of China Studies William C. Kirby agreed. “This is the moment to think creatively about how historically independent departments may interact or merge with other academic units,” he said. “That could be a source of really powerful intellectual collaboration...