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...FAS’ intellectual and fiscal growth during Knowles??€™ tenure has been the product of a leadership style that emphasizes streamlined bureaucracy, efficient consultative processes and a moderated, collegial tone of public discourse. Being a popular dean is no easy task—the same faculty that seem to believe they have an inalienable right to be informed, consulted and included in decisions dread serving on faculty committees—but Knowles??€™ style has won him both friends and battles...
...Navigating this minefield successfully is crucial for a dean to win the support of his faculty, and despite the introduction of several new consultative mechanisms under Knowles??€™ watch, many professors see him as an autocrat. As Killip put it, “there’s only one dog that barks at Harvard...
...Knowles??€™ style of leadership is hardly unprecedented. Traditionally, deans of FAS have served as the University’s number two administrator. A large degree of unilateral authority is built into the dean’s job description: he is solely responsible for setting budgets and appointing chairs, subordinate deans, and ad hoc committees...
...David A. Zewinski `76, FAS associate dean for physical resources and planning, cites Knowles??€™ preliminary steps to developing the North Yard Precinct: initial interviews with department chairs, a subsequent letter to all department chairs elaborating the goals that emerged from those interviews, a second set of interviews with the chairs (and other faculty) to amend those goals, and a third interview to clarify individual departments’ square footage needs...
...Knowles??€™ chosen administrators within University Hall say that he is, in Tompkins’ words, “highly consultative...