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While the specifics of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith’s proposed administrative reorganization have earned praise from professors, one aspect of the plan has drawn fire: the proposed slowdown in faculty hiring...
...goal of the cutback, Smith said, is to create “resource headroom,” so that when academic plans are ready to be executed at the end of next school year, FAS will have greater flexibility...
...Presiding over the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences—a fourth position, for the life sciences, was filled by committee—the new deans represented an additional administrative level between the departments and top FAS decision-makers, which some professors found stifling...
...Perhaps partly as a result of the careful build-up, department heads have been guarded about offering their opinions of Smith’s project. Since the announcement, The Crimson issued repeated requests for comment to 17 active members of FAS who served as chairs in 2005. Only one responded with an on-the-record statement...
...need more people who can help make things happen as opposed to fewer people, because the biggest problem in University Hall is that FAS is growing so big that its just impossible to make stuff happen,” Cutler said. “My job at times is a full-time job, and I’ve just got one small share of the Faculty that works with me, and so the idea of not having that is just ludicrous...