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When he stepped into office in 1991, Knowles was the first scientist to serve as Dean of FAS. At the start of his deanship, Knowles was faced with a faculty that was running $12 million deficits. He managed to bring it back to solvency while aggressively expanding space for the Faculty and students, including the opening of the Barker Center for the Humanities and the renovations of Memorial Hall after a fire destroyed large parts of the building. Knowles also spearheaded the massive renovation of first-year dorms in the Old Yard, improving a crucial part of freshman life...
Knowles said at the end of his deanship that the hardest part of his job had been “saying no to everything” proposed by professors. “It takes much longer to say no,” Knowles said, “because you must explain yourself...
Though his faculty was strapped for cash in the beginning his deanship, Knowles took incremental steps that would prove critical a decade later. He wired dorms and offices with Internet connections in 1996, earlier than most universities. He formed committees to examine the College dean’s office—which led to a restructuring under former FAS dean William C. Kirby—and the hiring of female professors...
When, later in his deanship, the spoils of a successful capital campaign and strong endowment growth turned deficits into new spending opportunities, Knowles pursued some of the University’s most successful construction projects in recent decades. He refurbished the dormitories in the Old Yard, converted the Freshman Union into the Barker Center, and laid the plans for new government buildings that opened...
...ever read it as thoroughly as Jeremy had,” recalled Lewis, who was dean during much of Knowles’ first deanship...