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...There was and is some damage being done to FAS,” said James T. Engell ’73, chair of the English department, noting the staff cuts and cancelled faculty searches of the past year and referencing the contents of the Dean’s Annual Report, which was released on Friday...
...beginning of the report says the crisis has done little to change our most important activities, but then later says the impact of the crisis on FAS has been immense,” Engell said. “It’s very hard to square the two in some ways...
...number of staff added to FAS over the past six years is roughly on the same scale of the entire Harvard College Library staff, which actually shrank over the same period of time, according to English department chair James T. Engell ’73. This year alone, HCL reduced its workforce by roughly 100 employees, including several acquisition librarians...
...FAS must whittle down its expenses after the endowment lost $11 billion—30 percent of its value—this past year. The Harvard Corporation slashed its endowment distribution to FAS by 8 percent for the fiscal year ending July 2010, and is planning to cut another 12 percent the year after, University President Drew G. Faust said at an October Faculty meeting...
...move that clarified why administrators have tamed fiscal messages of late after months of stressing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ impending financial deficit, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith delivered the news Friday that the school had posted a $58.6 million surplus in its unrestricted funds for the fiscal year that ended June 2009. The figure, released Friday in Smith’s Dean’s Annual Report, was balanced by a consistent emphasis that most of the gains were “the result of one-time events,” and that, as expected, much...