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...meeting, led by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, helped to articulate the nebulous financial condition of the university to staff and faculty members who will be heavily impacted by the situation. He discussed pressing issues surrounding the $220 million deficit that FAS is expected to run for the next two years. Ever since last month’s announcement that endowment funding for Harvard schools will drop by a steep eight percent, there has been much confusion about what changes will proceed in the immediate future. Fortunately, Tuesday’s meeting helped remove the opacity that normally characterizes Harvard?...
Breaking the university’s tradition of tight-lipped administrators, Dean Smith clarified just how dire the FAS situation actually is and the types of cuts that will most likely be necessary. The meeting occurred the day after an optional early-retirement incentive program for FAS staff members drew to a close and Smith announced that 30 percent of staff had participated. While he hinted at possible layoffs in the future, given FAS is saddled with such a large deficit, Smith did not articulate any specific plans. In spite of any concrete details, however, the general sentiment among...
...approve many of the changes the report proposes. And, unless the report comes out soon, it will not be ready in time for the upcoming meeting of the Faculty Council’s Docket Committee, effectively blocking it from being addressed this year. Therefore, we call on Harvard College Dean Evelyn M. Hammonds to work to expedite the release of the report so it can be placed on the agenda for one of the two May faculty meetings. The Review Committee’s report promises to address critical issues that require faculty approval, such as guidelines for sanctions...
...Crimson came out strong with the first goal of the opening period when junior attacker Travis Burr fed the ball to sophomore attacker Dean Gibbons on the right wing. where he finished in the top right corner of the net from 10 yards away...
...However, instead of encouraging Harvard students to join the military, the university has done the exact opposite. In fact, then-Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan wrote in 2005 that she felt that the military’s access to Harvard’s Office of Career Services was unacceptable. “I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy,” she said when the Law School was forced to give military recruiters the same access that investment banks and consulting firms have to OCS or lose federal funding...