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...been initiated. This allows the resident dean to act more strictly as an advisor. If a student would like an alternative advisor, they may choose another Board member. Also—as is the case now—a student may pick a personal advisor from within the FAS. Under the newly adopted procedures, this advisor will receive information and briefings on the Board process, be permitted to pause Board proceedings during a personal appearance if a student needs a break, and be permitted to voice relevant information if a student omits pertinent details...
...World's Thinking whether Harvard really needs to be paying for the trademark "Pocket Mentor" with more professors leaving the Faculty than joining it, sections growing larger, and professors raising the alarm that departments may get consolidated as a result of Dean Smith's call to "reshape" FAS...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s Office announced last week that they would eliminate hiring temporary examination proctors beginning fall 2009 in order to trim budgets as part of $77 million in cuts made across FAS. Instead, “existing faculty, graduate students, and staff will proctor exams,” according to a May 11 announcement on the FAS planning Web site...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith recently appointed six working groups to oversee what he has called the “reshaping” of different sections of FAS, which is set to run an annual deficit of over $143 million that administrators hope to close by July 2011. According to University President Drew G. Faust, the purpose of the working groups is to come up with ideas for “structural changes,” which could include “better ways of sharing” administrative duties...
...said that FAS administrators might instead decide not to replace retiring professors. “The only way to save money at the level they need to, is to not hire replacement faculty for faculty who leave,” he said. “One full-time senior faculty member costs a lot of money...