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...secret that Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators haven't exactly won a large fan following over the past couple months. When FAS leaders cut $77 million from its budget in response to the financial crisis, they took the axe to student favorites like the hot breakfasts we eat on those three days a year we're up before 10 and the shuttle service we use on nights we're not in the mood to get mugged...
...Athletic Department felt the heat too, and in that closed-door manner that has become a staple of the way FAS does budget business, Athletic Director Bob Scalise and company gave some JV teams the cheery news that they were being reduced to club status, which is basically a nice way of saying "We're not giving you any more money...
...SEAS currently covers only $500,000 of CNS’ $6.1 million budget, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pays for $3.1 million, with user fees and other revenue making up the difference, according to Bloxham. Murray said that center usage appears to be split evenly among SEAS and FAS professors, so she has already offered to cover a larger percentage of the budget in coming years. She said that it would be fair for SEAS to cover at least as much as FAS or even more. The recession has hit SEAS less hard than FAS, since only 35 percent...
...staffers applied for and received buyouts out of approximately 1,300 eligible workers, representing a yield of roughly 30 percent--nearly double the 10 to 15 percent that had been anticipated by administrators there, according to the Cornell Daily Sun.Harvard's Program was implemented in two waves: first for FAS, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and then for the remainder of the University's units. While FAS and HMS account for the largest fractions of the University's endowment, Galvin said the two-phase design was purely for administrative reasons. In each wave, eligible staff--participants...
...sure, FAS departments, Harvard College, and the Houses are doing what we can to cut our budgets. Reimagining the shape of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and renewing the energy of Harvard Houses are critical and exciting tasks. We willingly undertake them. Working groups are at work—in Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and on the Houses, on Student Life, on Undergraduate Education. Our salaries are frozen. But will all this really save the $200 million a year necessary to meet the structural deficit inherited by our talented and visionary President? Can they really do anything by next...