Word: fas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FAS staffer working in an academic department said that the current package is not generous enough to appeal to staffers below the cusp of retirement. Of the 516 FAS staffers who are eligible for the program, only 87 are 65 years of age or older, according to the package...
...meetings with department administrators last week, FAS finance officials said the University will reassess budgets after the end of the 45-day period and begin discussions about layoffs with the Office of the General Counsel and human resources officials...
With departments seeking to “cut the fat” from their budgets to the tune of a 15 percent reduction requested by the FAS administration, bagels and bacon will be the first to go. Rather than eliminating central costs such as employees and course materials, department chairs are looking to cut down on non-essential expenses such as food and office supplies as they set the next year’s budget...
...past, departments have offered food at faculty gatherings—coffee and pastries at breakfast meetings and catered sandwiches at lunch. With the entire university charged with the task of tightening its belt by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, nearly every department has had to scale back...
...interested people to create enough sparks that things start to happen. If you have 500 disparate groups, that’s not a commitment to arts. Yes, you let things happen, but how do we do that? That’s in discussion with the student body, with FAS, with the administration; all the stakeholders have to be there.THC: It’s hard to get everybody together around here.YYM: Absolutely. That’s the struggle. You need the will, you need the resources, you need the people to really do that. And it sounds like the administration...