Word: fas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year, the FAS had raised 67 percent of its $965 million goal. The College Library (which includes Widener, Lamont, Yenching, Pusey, Hilles and all other undergraduate libraries) had raised only 22 percent, $17 million, of its $78 million goal...
...available funds to improve sections, such as providing better training for teaching fellows. Because training teaching fellows to become better discussion leaders will benefit students only if section sizes are small enough for students to be able to converse with each other, we recommend that, if financial considerations lead FAS to believe a choice needs to be made, section sizes should be reduced before the problem of poorly-trained teaching fellows is addressed. In the mean time, we suggest that teaching fellows utilize the services of the Bok Center on Teaching more fully...
...Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles has consistently and publicly endorsed the idea of smaller sections. We encourage him to put his money where his mouth is and lower section size in the next fiscal year...
...Kennedy School's recent decision to include in next year's tuition price the $90 some of its students currently pay to use the FAS-owned MAC, a move which will open up the fitness facility to all K-School students, will no doubt make the odiferous and moist work-out areas even more overcrowded. We are disheartened by this step, but it is yet one more reminder of the facility's short-comings. As such, it only serves to underscore the fact that the MAC has, for some time, been an embarrassment to Harvard...
Before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) hired UNICCO and Acme contractors to clean the five buildings, FAS offered severance packages or early retirement options to all full time Harvard custodial employees...