Word: fas
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...central administration's management of Harvard's financial assets is seriously flawed, according to a report released to the full Faculty today by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Committee on Resources...
...report also called for the central administration to report its finances with more lucidity and to be more accountable to the Faculties--particularly the FAS--when making major financial decisions...
Former Provost Albert Carnesale prepared a letter to the Faculties this summer, which summarized the center's finances, though some Faculty members said they had hoped for a more substantive analysis, something akin to Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles' annual budget letter...
...alone does not dictate that a professor should be encouraged to retire. While we enthusiastically urge FAS to adopt this practice we would strongly caution department heads to base their use of such incentives solely on the criteria of a professor's abilities. Further, if the Faculty does take this important step to promote appropriate faculty turnover, we would like to see an expanded role for the many luminaries who currently hold and will hold emeriti status...
With the end of mandatory retirement, there is a threat that FAS will come to resemble a useless geriatric ward. Retirement incentives, wielded appropriately, offer a promising solution to this problem. We hope that FAS will consider the interests of the students paramount to their charitable instincts and will encourage those past their prime to make room for fresh blood...