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...said that he consulted a “large number of individual faculty members” before making his decision. The student advisory committees, he added, played a relatively small role in identifying candidates for the deanship, but helped him understand which issues are currently on students’ minds...
During his deanship, which ended a year into Summers’ presidency, Knowles also encouraged greater faculty-student interaction. He expanded the Freshman Seminar Program and pushed for smaller sections in undergraduate courses...
Knowles returns to the deanship as FAS faces possible deficits yet again, resulting from a billion-dollar building boom and rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment...
After being selected as Summers’ immediate successor, Bok appointed a 10-member faculty advisory committee that met regularly to vet candidates for the deanship...
...letter outlined Kirby’s priorities and took a retrospective look at his deanship. His four years in University Hall saw a building boom worth almost a billion dollars, the growth of the Faculty from 635 professors to 703, and the beginning of the College’s first full-scale curricular review since the 1970s...