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...Knowles?? early years were most notable for his impressive job of balancing the budget, which was running more than $12 million in debt when he became dean in 1991. Creative administrative cuts to the roughly $750 million FAS budget reestablished its solvency and allowed Knowles to spend more money on pressing priorities...
...those priorities was the creation of more space for Faculty. To this end, one of Knowles?? most enduring accomplishments was the opening of the Barker Center for the Humanities, which for the first time united different humanities faculty under the same roof. Knowles was also the impetus behind the renovations of Memorial Hall and Boylston Hall, and the creation of Loker Commons. A distinguished scientist himself, Knowles spearheaded a $200 million effort to increase and update Harvard’s laboratory space. These were all important moves toward increasing and effectively utilizing Faculty space...
Knowles, to all those who know him, is a friendly man with a touching Old World style. His expertise as a dean will be greatly missed, but we are heartened that he will return to teaching. FAS is in far better position than he found it, and Knowles?? achievements have left the door open for even more expansion and improvement...
...rebirth of the freshman seminar program was really made possible because of [Knowles??] commitment to it,” Pedersen said. “He put a great deal of work into personally engaging the Faculty with that issue when we first thought about expanding...
...Knowles?? most far-reaching curricular initiatives came just two years ago. In 1999, he proposed a series of interdisciplinary endeavors—totalling several hundred million dollars—in the natural sciences that ultimately created new centers for genomics research and for the imaging of tiny structures...