Word: fas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September report, the FAS Standing Committee on Information Technology set a goal of providing every member of the faculty and administrative staff a networked computer with World Wide Web (WWW) accessibility...
...report did not say how the initiative would be funded. Committee members later said they expected funds to come from professors' salaries and grant funds, from departmental budgets and from the central FAS budget--the myriad of sources that currently fund faculty and staff computers...
...saying how to pay for it, we're just saying 'Let's get it done,'" said Paul C. Martin '51, chair of the FAS Committee on Information Technology and dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
While the FAS and other Harvard faculties struggle to bring technology to education, Harvard Business School (HBS) has become a worldwide leader, providing individualized Web pages with detailed course outlines, assignments, audio and visual presentation materials and interactive case studies for every class...
Members of the Faculty said that even if expense were no object, a highly coordinated system such as HBS's would not work well for the FAS because professors in the Arts and Sciences have more diverse needs and the overall organization is too decentralized...