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Since faculty salaries are a considerable investment for FAS, the likes of the Celtic department have less recourse for claiming the additional dollar if budgetary streamlining is driven purely by efficiency and practicality.
The cuts to smaller departments have been proportional to those of larger departments—to the tune of 15 percent in the fiscal year that ends this coming June.
As Smith says, “It was not high on my list to go cutting activities out of the FAS that have been fundamental to what we’ve been doing and have been wonderful on campus.”
Departments that have the fewest concentrators tend to teach subject areas that have more oblique connections to current affairs and fewer obvious paths to the job market.
In deciding to support the smaller departments at Harvard—both financially and intellectually—Faust and Smith have been bucking the national trend by defying what Ziolkowski refers to as “American pragmatism”—the emphasis on studying subjects relevant to...