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...community achievements. More and happier students will donate more in the future, as happened when Harvard weathered the 1930s Depression. Allston will bring better research, attract better faculty, and bring more prestige to the university. Housing renovations will improve student life and happiness surveys—the backbone of FAS. Hence the debate should not be about changing the way HMC invests (they almost always know better than the pundits), but rather about enacting counter-cyclical measures to take advantage of the downturn in order to grow faster and stronger than the competition...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Office for Faculty Affairs is collaborating with the Provost’s Office to explore implementing a retirement incentive package for faculty members, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said in an interview yesterday...
...that the deadline for FAS staffers to accept their retirement incentive packages has passed, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mailed statement that “University officials are beginning to take up the question of a faculty program in earnest...
...often unfortunate, especially at Harvard—a place accustomed to abundance. Yet these cuts are also probably highly prudent and necessary, though it is difficult to be sure, since the university’s true financial picture remains cloudy. The decision made earlier this semester to reduce annual FAS departmental budgets and annual House budgets by 15 percent was a difficult concession, but likely sensible in the current environment. The recent announcement, however, that each of Harvard’s 12 Houses will be required to cut spending by an additional 10 percent—25 percent in full?...
Upper-level FAS administrators have deferred a push from professors seeking to create a great books program within General Education, citing a lack of resources due to the financial crisis...