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Kirby announced during the summer the appointment of four new “divisional” deanships. In office since Sept. 1, the divisional deans oversee broad groupings of academic departments??the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and life sciences—and are responsible for monitoring hiring, improving research initiatives and enhancing inter-departmental communication, among other things. This intuitive move by Kirby will provide students with better course options and give faculty more opportunities to offer feedback...
...Police departments?? inability to intervene unless summoned is distinctly at odds with the belief that “early intervention is the best prevention,” common in recent homeless initiatives, says Cambridge City Councillor David P. Maher. Maher is familiar with many local homelessness concerns because of his day job at the Cambridge Family and Children’s Service...
...easy way to avoid incurring deficits at the College would have been to call an immediate stop to new appointments and projects. But in saving FAS from deficit, such a policy would have catapulted it into intellectual stagnation. Small academic departments??where immediate and substantial growth is possible—would have been unacceptably damaged by a complete or “hard” freeze on hiring. FAS needs to remain financially viable, but penny-pinching cannot come at the far-greater expense of paralyzed academic growth...
...training started 22 weeks ago, when the recruits from across the Boston area—including significant contingents from the Newton and Waltham police departments??began their training at the police academy in Quincy...
...making them unduly attractive to prospective faculty. But back in December, it was painfully clear to many at the University that without any thoughtful limits in place, eager professors would rush en masse to take their leave at the first possible opportunity—leaving at least some departments?? undergraduate students high and dry. Those in power didn’t have to look any further than the current 2002-2003 academic year. An astounding 18 professors were on leave from the history department, even under the original, more restrictive sabbatical policy...