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...basketball team, who have met with the committee four times over the past month, most recently on Monday, to discuss the ongoing search.—Walter E. Howell contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas,harvard.edu...
...that bad for undergraduates if Harvard College was its own tub and the dean of the College reported directly to the president, as is the case at nearly every other university in the country. At Harvard, however, the College is fully under the purview of the FAS dean, who controls every aspect of the College’s budget and lords over and selects the relatively weak dean of the College...
...funded by former University President Lawrence H. Summers when the dean of the Faculty pulled financial support. Even the Campus Life Fellow (better known as the fan czar) is funded largely by the Office of the President. And it’s not just student life initiatives that the FAS dean controls—everything from House life to advising to athletics to the curriculum is ultimately managed by the dean...
This arrangement has produced disastrous results in the past because the FAS dean’s highest priority is inevitably to professors. And when faculty or administration interests clash with student concerns, it is always the students who lose out. The prime example sits at 90 Mt. Auburn Street: a lot at the hub of student life that was given to the library to build a library administration building, thanks in large part to then-Dean and currently interim-Dean Jeremy R. Knowles. And given that FAS owns all of the College’s real estate and can allocate...
Moreover, as Knowles reminded the Faculty in a letter this week, FAS faces a deficit that is projected to persist long into the future. That will mean belt tightening for each of its constituent departments and centers. The College must not, however, be left in the dust. The way to improve the student experience is not to funnel all the money to faculty, a perilous policy supported by a ludicrously large number of otherwise-intelligent people. Improvements that directly impact students—which have dramatically enhanced the student experience in recent years—cost comparatively little...