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Indeed, Hoekstra says that the department of organismic and evolutionary biology has brought in six female junior faculty members in recent years, all the while emphasizing the tenure track system and the gradual integration into a welcoming community of academics at Harvard.
Department and center administrators say they have spent many additional hours under scrutiny from the FAS budget office as the two sides come to a consensus on expenditure priorities—a decision on which FAS has final say.
“I haven’t seen it as micromanaging,” says History of Art and Architecture Department Administrator Deanna Dalrymple. “I’ve seen it as survival.”
For example, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute began funding Ukrainian language instruction this academic year—a hefty financial responsibility that had traditionally been upheld by the Slavic Languages Department, says Executive Director Tymish J. Holowinsky.
Even department administrators, who are more dependent on unrestricted “subvention” funds from the dean, say that their own wishes do not necessarily align with those expressed by the FAS finance office.