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...despite the silence, administrators are not working without any planning assumptions, according to Engineering Professor Frederick H. Abernathy, who said that FAS Dean for Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet has acknowledged an expectation that 14 percent of eligible staffers would take the package...
...FAS officials said at a meeting with administrators in February that following Harvard’s deadline for acceptance of the package, the University would reassess budgets before beginning any discussions about layoffs with the Office of the General Counsel and human resources officials...
...Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, which includes over 1000 FAS staffers, said that his union would also be actively involved in talks with the administrators if layoffs are broached in the aftermath of the retirement package, and would look to find an alternative to job cuts...
...Susan R. Suleiman, chair of the literature and comparative literature department, said that the retirement of the literature concentration’s administrator, Barbara J. Akiba, will make up a “decent chunk” of the 15 percent budget cut that the FAS administration has requested of all departments...
Princeton is spreading out its budget cuts over a longer period than Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences plans to. While the FAS must cut next year’s budget by approximately $152 million, Princeton is planning to reduce next year’s budget by $88 million and the 2010-2011 budget by an additional $82 million, saving a total of $170 million in two years...