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...wondered ourselves whether there would be sufficient resources within [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] to supply courses in it,” wrote Simmons in an e-mail. “To our surprise and delight, we discovered a wealth of courses are already being taught by FAS faculty in the area...
...Graham, a member of FAS for 33 years, said it is “inevitable” that the Divinity School faculty will have a role in the proposed “Faith and Reason” courses...
...initiatives that have begun to address these shortcomings haven’t been cheap—and more will be needed to make further progress. Harvard’s president must compel the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to spend its precious dollars on priorities that the Faculty itself might not share. (In addition, the president must be willing to spend his or her own discretionary funding on undergraduates, as Summers did on several occasions.) Conversely, FAS’ bleak financial outlook must not justify an attempt to cut existing programs, let alone hamper new ones?...
Women comprised only 21 percent of the academics who accepted tenure-track offers to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last year, a startling reversal of a three-year trend that saw that figure rise to 40 percent in 2004-2005.It’s too soon to tell whether the sheer one-year drop, identified in the first annual FAS report on diversity, represents an anomaly or the start of a new trend. But the finding raises a flag for FAS as it works to increase gender diversity in a faculty where less than 19 percent...
...deemed more suitable to fulfill the Moral Reasoning requirement. Paradoxically again, this dictatorial measure actually enhanced students’ freedom instead of diminishing it. The case of the Humanities portal courses should become the rule. Instead of leaving it up to the Faculty to approve the Core, FAS should appoint a small group of trusted professors—like those who produced the report over the summer—and provide them with the specific mandate to choose and swiftly implement a new Core. Only decisive action, maybe through an educational Cincinnatus, will save us from the deluge. Pierpaolo Barbieri...