Word: deane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence makes his fundraising pitch to alumni, there's one thing he's sure to mention--the need to increase the size of the faculty...
Spence, who has spent the bulk of his five-and-a-half year tenure as dean on issues of faculty staffing, is quietly preparing to revamp the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). And he says he's convinced that increasing the number of senior faculty and bolstering the chances that junior faculty will receive tenure here are the keys to his plans for the venerable...
...that end, the economist-turned-dean has launched what participants are calling "a curriculum review with a little `c' and a little `r'." The curriculum review, headed by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, is designed to analyze the nuts and bolts of undergraduate education in each of the 42 concentrations, from tutorials to advising to course requirements...
...should not be trying to raise new resources before we have an understanding of how current resources are being used," says Jeffrey Wolcowitz, assistant dean for undergraduate education and a member of the curriculum panel...
...strategy which has led some to question whether anything is being done under the Spence administration. But the dean argues that he entered office in 1984 with a dearth of information about the Faculty's financial standing and how it operates. The curriculum review is just one of his efforts to educate himself about his job, administrators...