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Finding a more accurate way to obtain these measurements was the subject of Kirby??€™s PhD thesis...
...deliberations.He initially served as an ex officio member of the curricular review’s Committee on General Education, chaired by then-FAS Dean Kirby, but Summers was soon pressured by Faculty members to bow out.The ongoing tension between Summers and members of the Faculty was further strained by Kirby??€™s sudden decision to resign in January 2006.Though Summers and Kirby never publicly acknowledged their falling-out, sources close to the central administration said at the time that Summers had forced him out.Following Kirby??€™s resignation, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
After leading FAS from 1991 until 2002, Knowles stepped down as Dean and returned to pure academia. But when his successor—William C. Kirby??€”was forced out of office in 2006, Knowles’s dedication to the Faculty was proven when he returned to University Hall in 2006 for one year as the interim Dean of FAS. Even though he already had been diagnosed with cancer, Knowles returned at a time when the University needed him and has since then (and until very recently) been a reassuring presence at faculty events and University gatherings...
...took incremental steps that would prove critical a decade later. He wired dorms and offices with Internet connections in 1996, earlier than most universities. He formed committees to examine the College dean’s office—which led to a restructuring under former FAS dean William C. Kirby??€”and the hiring of female professors...
...This is the second time in two years that faculty members anticipate the appointment of a permanent dean. In the wake of Kirby??€™s January 2006 forced resignation—an event that contributed to Summers’s fall weeks later—professors assisting in the search for Kirby??€™s replacement wanted a long-lasting leader who could bring a renewed vision to the office...