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Skocpol’s penchant for controversy, however, has not been without its costs. Most notably, it recently backfired in her widely rumored campaign to become the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Her leadership style, which interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles tactfully termed “gently unambiguous,” proved to be the sticking point with many senior faculty members, recalling the strong-willed tendencies of Summers’ tenure. This ultimately led to University President Drew G. Faust voicing doubt about Skocpol’s bid for the FAS...
Despite the controversy surrounding her, we might never know whether Skocpol would have served capably as FAS dean. We are, however, appreciative of the job she has done as GSAS dean. Because of her initative, for example, the GSAS will require mandatory English testing for TFs starting next fall, in large part due to frequently voiced students complaints about their inability to comprehend their section leader. She has also been a strong advocate for mandatory TF evaluations in order to hold TFs accountable for their performance...
...hires in the social sciences and arts and humanities accounted for most of that growth, Knowles said, and FAS now lags behind Yale, Princeton, and Stanford in the proportion of faculty in the natural sciences...
...FAS this year, social sciences and humanities professors total 460, while professors in the physical sciences, life sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences number...
Knowles stressed that as FAS grows, the distribution of professors across the disciplines should be motivated not by the need for teachers alone, but also “to achieve a deeper range of scholarly excellence...