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...announcement comes after British geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham—divisional dean for the physical sciences—reportedly rejected an offer to fill the position...
Among the most important issues facing the next FAS dean are the implementation of the new program on general education to replace the Core, fundraising to overcome the current FAS deficit, the strengthening of the sciences, and the expansion into Allston, professors and administrators have said in interviews in recent months...
...signaling of proposed and actual cuts in federal funding really hurt our ability to diversify the class as quickly as we would have liked,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—who was serving as acting dean in 1982—says. “We were frankly quite concerned that this kind of signaling could discourage students from low- and moderate-income backgrounds from applying to colleges at all, especially private colleges and universities...
Georgetown University, for example, added a special charge of $200 per student to its tuition in 1982 specifically to make up for the loss of federal funding, according to Charles A. Deacon, who was and still is Georgetown’s dean of undergraduate admissions...
...Stetson, who was the dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and remains in the position today, said that his university also had to dip into its own budget in order to preserve its aid-blind admissions policy...