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...will be in the sciences and engineering.” Harvard will only continue to appoint new social science professors to replace the ones who are departing. Of course, if wealthy donors want to endow professorships in the social sciences, FAS won’t turn them down. But Knowles?? message to the overcrowded, understaffed social science departments was clear: Relief...
...Knowles?? comparisons pit Harvard against peer institutions. At Yale, for example, 39 percent of professors are hard scientists—3 percentage points above the figure for Harvard. (Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley are even more heavily weighted toward the hard-science side.) Meanwhile, just 24 percent of Yale faculty members are social scientists, 10 percentage points below the Harvard figure. (The other three schools’ faculties have even smaller social science contingents...
Knowles writes that he does “not mean to suggest that we should blithely or blindly follow trends elsewhere.” But if Harvard follows Knowles?? plan, we will be doing exactly that. The plan will bring Harvard more in line with peer institutions—and further out of step with its own students’ needs...
...course it is hard to disagree with Knowles?? statement that “even if…there was hardly any student interest in physics or philosophy…intellectual life in the FAS would be unacceptably impoverished if it did not include physicists and philosophers.” Student demand should not entirely rule faculty appointments, but it should at least be taken into account, lest the intellectual life of social science concentrators (the majority of students) be “unacceptably impoverished” by their lack of faculty contact...
Social science concentrators will be dismayed by Knowles?? plan—but they won’t be surprised. Economics concentrators know that centralized planning often produces worse results than consumer choice. And government majors have learned that in the absence of accountability, institutions are often not responsive to their constituents’ needs...