Word: gsas
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...typical student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) only sees Harvard’s president twice during their long stay at Harvard—once when they are welcomed to Harvard and once when they graduate. And only half of graduate students even see the president in the welcoming ceremony, since he alternates bi-annually with the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the keynote speaker. The absence of the University’s president at such an important juncture leaves the impression that he or she is uninterested in the graduate student body...
...easy for students at the College to adopt the attitude that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is the center of Harvard, the truth remains that Harvard is not an institution consisting solely of undergraduates, their professors, and members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Under the existing governing institutions, a single faculty can both too easily be dismissed as an outlier and too easily generalized as representative of the larger University. Last February, when FAS voted “no-confidence” in Summers, confusion ensued. Was this emblematic of widespread discontent throughout...
Some professors point to the circumstances under which the then-dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) departed a year ago as an example of the internal disputes that fed their discontent...
Summers later decided to drop the idea, which Faculty members saw as an encroachment on their authority. In Harvard’s administrative structure, GSAS lies within the Faculty’s control...
...former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) told The Crimson yesterday that Lawrence H. Summers should resign from his post as University president—becoming the highest-profile Harvard affiliate to call for Summers to step down since Corporation member Conrad K. Harper issued the same demand last summer.The former dean, Peter T. Ellison, said the reason he left his administrative position last spring was because he could not work alongside Summers. And he said the character of the president’s leadership may better suit Washington, where Summers served as Treasury secretary...