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...Many departments also have ongoing searches for new faculty which could yield as many as 40 new professors by the end of the year, and the cutback will give FAS time to “absorb” these hires, Smith said...
...interviews, several faculty members said they worried about the effects of the slowdown on departments, while others asked why FAS needs another pause so soon after similar pullbacks in 2003 and 2005 during the troubled tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...David M. Cutler ’87, the outgoing divisional dean for the social sciences, said that professors are understanding of the need for the pause, and that their frustration is simply the result of exhaustion after years of turmoil. Smith is the fourth FAS Dean in the last two years...
Kosslyn will take the post—which sits above a broad grouping of departments affiliated with the social sciences—at what Smith’s statement yesterday called a “pivotal moment” for FAS. Earlier this month, Smith announced extensions of the divisional deans’ responsibilities that included budgetary power to authorize searches for new faculty in the departments under in their division...
Kosslyn has served as chair since 2005, and from 2006-2007 was the co-coordinator of the Caucus of Chairs, an informal body of department heads that became an influential player in FAS politics during the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers...