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...Certainly I would support addressing those issues and I would be very concerned about student concerns in that area,” she said. “But once again, whether I would personally be doing those or whether they would happen through an FAS dean or a College dean—we would want to see what the most effective way of addressing them...
Faust’s recent decision to appoint Michael D. Smith, who has, in her words, “been so involved” in life outside the classroom, to the FAS deanship seems to indicate a push to increase the dean’s role in undergraduate life. Smith is chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics Sports at Harvard and worked on a review of life in Cabot House...
This was to be a banner year for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). With the drama surrounding former University President Lawrence H. Summers firmly behind it and a trusted leader, interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles at the helm, the Faculty would finally be able to focus on reexamining pedagogy and completing an inspiring curricular review. FAS would be primed for a heady future after the handover to a new dean at the end of the year.If only it were so. Instead, leadership shake-ups, a budget deficit, pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with...
Although the calendar reforms proposed by the Verba committee have gained broad support from deans across the University, some members of FAS have expressed concerns over Bok’s decision not to allow the University’s faculties to vote on the changes...
...with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a one-month “J-term” in between. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as FAS tackled general education legislation and a leadership crisis...