Word: fas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first priority of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) should be maintaining the highest quality faculty available. The use of retirement incentives aimed at older professors in order to make way for new ones is an excellent way to ensure that students have access to the best scholars of every generation. The Dean of the Faculty should monitor the Faculty with attention to aging professors who would better serve the University in emeriti positions. Those who fit such a description should be offered a retirement incentive in the form of reward, allows them to remain affiliated with the University...
Many of the famous and renowned professors of Chicano/Latino literature who have come to Harvard in the past few years have come through the visiting professorships set up by FAS in conjunction with the Harvard Foundation. Maria Herrera-Sobek, a visiting professor last year through the folklore and mythology Department, is not only a distinguished scholar in the field of Chicana writers but is also the head of the Department for Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Hector Calderon, of the University of California at Los Angeles, also an eminent scholar specializing in Chicano narrative...
...Time's arthimetic is, I fear, flawed," said Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles...
...First, FAS has only 4.6 billion in its endowment ($11 billion is the total for all of Harvard, including its 10 schools and other units). Second, roughly 75 percent of the endowment is restricted for some particular purpose. For the University to simply reallocate his money to lowering tuition would be illegal...
...comparison, about 25 percent of the FAS's revenue comes from tuition-even after financial aid is subtracted...