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During the question-and-answer session of yesterday’s town hall meeting, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith hosted a series of questions from concerned staff workers, perplexed professors, and student activists. Faced with a $220 million deficit over the next two years, every member of the assembly had some reason to worry. “Each of us represents his or her own segment of a huge, complex organization,” said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library. “And the questions naturally take the form...
...firm wants to speculate on interest rates that's fine. There is nothing that prevents them from using TARP that way," says Dean Baker, who is the co-founder of the Washington, D.C. liberal-leaning think tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "But I am not sure that helps the economy, and if they were to get that wrong the firm and taxpayers would be much worse...
With his administration on the brink of a sweeping fiscal review that could lead to layoffs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith will host a town hall meeting today, discussing the state of the Faculty’s finances before an unprecedented group of stakeholders. In lieu of the regular Faculty meeting that had been scheduled for today, Smith will discuss the budgetary challenges facing the Faculty before opening the floor for questions from professors, staff, and selected student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. The town hall meeting comes...
...stance is in opposition to what some believe might be an overly restrictive need-based standard for deciding which students can remain on campus in January. A letter about the “J-term” decision sent to members of the community last week by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith suggested that students with a need to remain on campus “may potentially include varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research, and others who cannot reasonably accomplish their work...
...Council also voted yesterday to approve a letter to Hammonds inquiring whether a report on the Ad Board set to be delivered to the college dean by a student-faculty committee charged with considering the issue be made public. Former UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 sat on the Ad Board committee and Ad-board reform was one of his campaign platforms when he ran for president last year...