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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is once again a hot topic at Harvard. While the College and the Core monopolized the Faculty's attention for over a decade, the grad school is now getting its share of the limelight. Five departments have changed their graduate programs in the past year, and the GSAS itself is receiving its first searching review in 15 years...
...Strauch Committee, chaired by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch, formed this summer in one of A. Michael Spence's first actions as Dean of the Faculty. The committee expected to spend the school year interviewing students, faculty, and administrators in an attempt to gauge the state of the GSAS...
...Strauch Committee is only one of several efforts to re-define the GSAS. In the Government Department, for instance, curricular reforms enacted this summer were aimed at combatting over-specialization. And in University Hall Spence has chosen to reduce GSAS bureaucracy by not replacing Jeremy W. Rusk, who retired last spring as associate dean of he GSAS for administration...
Since the last full-scale review of the GSAS was conducted in 1969 by the Wolff Committee--who focused their attention on the size of the grad school--conditions have changed, professors and administrators say. Not only has the size of the GSAS been reduced since the reforms of the early 1970s, but even more importantly, the Wolff Committee's vision of the grad school's purpose and direction is non somewhat outdated. "The waters have been muddied in the last five-six years, and it's time now for someone to determine what the nature of the graduate school...
...Strauch Committee is expected to analyze the GSAS's role in the 1980s and 1990s, says Peter S. McKinney, Spence's acting dean of the grad school for the academic year. The major issues appear to be should the GSAS expand to meet the larger academic job market of the 1990s, and if so how much; should the GSAS prepare students solely for academic life; what structure of admissions, advising, and placement should be implemented; what balance should the GSAS draw between departmental autonomy and Byerly Hall centralization...