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...FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced a freeze on faculty salaries and cut 70 percent of faculty searches earlier this month, just weeks after freezing staff hiring in the school. Two weeks ago, Harvard Medical School and FAS administrators asked their departments to plan for 10 percent budget cuts in light of the deteriorating financial situation. And last week, the Harvard Kennedy School announced it would freeze salaries and slow or stop faculty and staff hiring except in cases of "extremely high strategic priority...
...recent administrative calls for budget-trimming, staff in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been clinging to their jobs in apprehension, anxious that they are particularly vulnerable in a new era of cost-cutting. Many staffers interviewed by The Crimson expressed concern that the hiring freeze on all FAS staff posts announced three weeks ago was an administrative effort to resuscitate the endowment that did not fully consider the impact on staff. “To me, this place always had the feel of an investment bank as opposed to an institution of higher education,” said...
...allow partisan reasons to supercede academic requirements. While the decision to retain the current exam schedule is an appropriate one, the attitude of the Administrative Board toward granting exceptions for individual students has been extraordinarily opaque. In a letter to faculty, Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Barry S. Kane informed the faculty that while the Registrar’s office is able to move exams, the Administrative Board has the sole authority to decide individual exceptions for students. Clearly, it is a rarity to be excused. And so far, the process of excusing students from exams...
...report also reveals that only 31 percent of tenure-track professors in the FAS humanities are women, compared with percentages of up to 53 percent at peer institutions like Princeton...
Hayward emphasized that the deal could still fall through. A budget proposal will be presented to FAS in the next few weeks, and the administration will then determine how to proceed, according to Mitchell...