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...compared to peer institutions, Harvard lags,” said Biewener, who is the Lyman professor of biology. In his letter, Knowles—a chemist—wrote that many people, including the University’s top governing bodies, have concluded that “FAS has systematically underinvested in science.” But one humanity professor said that there is concern that the science growth will come at the cost of the vitality of the humanities and social sciences. “Obviously not everybody’s happy about it,” said...
Harvard is indeed in peril of losing its American identity, but the problem is not one that can or should be fixed by a majority vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). At its root, this is a problem of emotion, rather than academics. The danger is not that future generations of Harvard students will lose the ability to study American labor markets, read Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” or write essays about the Atlanta Compromise. It is that they will no longer understand, on a gut level, why they...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), to which the College belongs, will continue its new arrangement of renting space in Mass. Hall from the University’s central administration. Until last summer, when FAS sold the building to the central administration, the University rented the first, second, and part of the third floors of Mass. Hall for the offices of the president and provost. The third and fourth floors house freshmen, along with the other 12 Yard dorms...
...Without regard for Santayana’s oft-quoted maxim, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) recently concluded that Harvard’s new General Education program will not require the study of history. The Faculty’s definitive exclusion of history should arrive as no small shock, given the values articulated in the preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education...
...advising remain hit-or-miss? Will the instruction of writing at the college remain sub-par? Or will Harvard truly invest in the future of its undergraduates?The answers to all of these questions lie in the hands of the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). How he answers them will determine the hallmarks of a Harvard education for the next generation.The most obvious issue pertaining to undergraduate education on the dean’s plate is the ongoing curricular review. On paper, the new system could either become a realigned Core or a completely different...