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...even the worst financial crisis could convince Michael D. Smith to forgo his usual morning work-out sessions. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences wakes up well before 5 a.m., and generally warns against e-mailing him past his usual bedtime of 10 p.m. A computer scientist by training, Smith is all discipline, method, and very little madness...
...This is the man who, upon being named dean, needed multiple meetings with his predecessor David R. Pilbeam to review a sheet of paper with a list of items Pilbeam thought would require particular attention. But Smith didn’t want the crash course in deanship to stop there...
...vague responses and deflections may reflect a lack of any current plan. “I don’t think there’s some big proposal sitting in the wings that is the secret strategy for solving our budget shortfalls,” says Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...absence of any clear directive has cast doubt on Smith’s own grasp of the situation. “The Dean doesn’t exactly know himself what this ‘reshaping’ will mean,” said Classics Department Chair John M. Duffy, calling Smith’s dialect “a visionary approach without exactly having a vision...
...process can work much more efficiently if we have a greater sense of the vision of the leaders of the University on what their large priorities are,” says former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68. “To really make large scale changes, I think you need a somewhat stronger hand—a stronger hand that’s informed and consultative...