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With the dearth of new hires, Smith faces dampened prospects for dramatically reshaping the faculty, a goal that had extended across much of the decade.
Last academic year, securing a professorship at Harvard was close to impossible. Only nine professors joined the ranks of FAS, as Dean Michael D. Smith had imposed a near-complete freeze on faculty hiring in a bleak fiscal climate.
In the past, certain centers had exercised a great deal of autonomy in spending funds allocated by donors towards their fields. But with his fresh emphasis on the “core priorities” of FAS, Smith was now essentially prescribing the areas in which units ought to spend...
For example, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute began funding Ukrainian language instruction this academic year—a hefty financial responsibility that had traditionally been upheld by the Slavic Languages Department, says Executive Director Tymish J. Holowinsky.
“We all pitched in together on this because we recognized it was an extraordinary time,” says Kleinman, who noted that his Asia Center had redirected funds away from the faculty research support that the center has previously offered.