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...slated for completion.“There is extreme financial difficulty in the University and the decision was made to delay Allston,” says Catherine Dulac, chair of the MCB department. “We all have to accommodate some of the consequences.”With FAS now planning to revamp its administrative and programmatic structure, the University’s decision to reconfigure its limited laboratory space has irked affected MCB researchers who feel the move suggests an underlying bias towards more lucrative research.“I think it sends a message. It?...
...Both House Masters and students vocally opposed the potential move. During meetings with faculty and College administrators, Eck emphasized the fact that while House staff has not expanded in the last decade, 230 additional administrative staff across FAS have been added to the University payroll...
...allocation of resources by Massachusetts Law are reserved for the Harvard Corporation,” he said.And the secrecy of the planning troubled professors as well. When former Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles penned a major report on Allston in 2003 that argued against moving FAS sciences across the river, professors were only allowed to read the report behind closed University Hall and department chair doors. Concerns soon swirled in FAS that planning for Allston was a “fait accompli” and that objections and discussions about Summers’ plans were...
...made, Flores says. Though the announcement was made on April 6, the Council waited a week to bring student concern to administrators. At a Town Hall meeting held by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith on April 14 to brief members of the FAS community about looming financial challenges, Council members requested an answer to a prevalent student concern: which students would be allowed to stay on campus during the three-week period in January? Ten days later, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds sent a letter to the community announcing a student-faculty...
...Faculty Michael D. Smith released a sweeping list of cuts—which trimmed services at campus cafés and libraries and reduced print publication offerings—to close $77 million of this gap. Further belt-tightening measures have been released by Houses and individual units within FAS...