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...modest modifications to the school’s administrative budget upon the request of Michael D. Smith, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Smith has asked all departments for 10 to 15 percent budget cuts in order to meet the more than $100 million shortfall across FAS in the next fiscal year. “This is an exercise that Dean Smith is asking all administrative units in FAS to participate in,” Brandt said. “The character of this economic crisis is so global and universal that resources of every type have...
...Harvard’s support for entrepreneurship on campus is a relatively recent development. It has been rumored that Harvard College once had a loose and often unenforced rule that students were prohibited from running businesses out of their dorm rooms. However, the current FAS Handbook for Students vaguely states that students are allowed to partake in “modest levels of business activities on campus,” provided that they do not violate other College rules regarding residential life or use of Harvard’s name and resources...
...month’s Faculty meeting, the most recent documents stacked on the tables were printed on conventional thin stock. “Today is the last day you’ll see a wide variety of printed material available to us in the Faculty meeting,” FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said in his first piece of news regarding the ongoing financial crisis. Future Faculty meetings will continue to provide some printed materials, such as the agenda, but others—such as documents related to docket items—will be available online before professors gather...
Although Melton argued that the new concentration is not preprofessional, many HDRB classes will be taught next fall by Medical School professors. The SCRB department—itself a joint venture of FAS and Harvard Medical School, begun in 2007—is currently offering courses that will count toward the nascent concentration’s requirements...
...will recruit at least 20 recent Ph.D.s for one-year teaching appointments as part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ cost-cutting efforts—is drawing mixed reactions from members of the Faculty. Although the possibility of the program has been floated for some time, FAS began to seriously consider implementing it around November, when it became clear that the financial crisis was going to hit the University hard, said Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith. Since Smith has slashed the number of visiting professorships for next year and the hiring slowdown will limit...