Word: expansionism
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The former chairman of industrial giant Corning Incorporated, Houghton presiding over the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—during a period of expansion and turbulence, a time when the endowment grew and crashed and a president rose and fell.
But after undergoing a phase of dramatic expansion in the faculty in the first part of the decade, FAS has found itself confronted with the task of budgetary streamlining—thereby restricting the school’s ability to recruit fresh faces and personalities to the faculty.
While FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said that the size of the Faculty will grow slightly in the coming year—a marked slow-down after a decade that saw the Faculty expand by nearly 20 percent—he acknowledged that he does not expect new faculty searches...
Culver—who has been a member of the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee since 1975 and has served as a chair of the committee for 14 years—will take over on July 1 when current IOP Director Bill Purcell steps down to begin working...
Over the past eight years, Harvard’s study abroad program has seen a dramatic expansion: what began with a small group of students who traveled overseas for a full semester has widened into a much larger component of the undergraduate population, most of whom spend a summer in...