Word: knowlesã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, it accomplished all this without any formal constitutional powers, simply using its accepted status as “Dean Knowles?? committee” and the members’ powers of “moral suasion” to achieve these results. One University Hall administrator says Knowles?? lesser reliance on formal consultative processes has enabled delicate issues to be discussed in greater detail and with better results due to the added privacy of unofficial channels...
...Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics William Paul claims that Knowles?? implementing the faculty report’s recommendations, as Spence did not, fits a longstanding pattern...
...Allegations of Knowles?? autocracy have been most pronounced in instances in which he has taken a hands-on approach in mending “troubled” areas of FAS. Knowles says he has installed department chairs three times who were appointed professors in other FAS departments. In addition, he has removed faculty or staff from positions without consulting them ahead of time at least twice...
...Knowles?? first two controversial external interventions took place a month apart in the fall of 1993, when he recommended “structural” changes in both the Department of Linguistics and FAS’ Semitic Museum...
...Knowles?? first step was to install Wolff, who says the department was “dysfunctional,” as Acting Chair in 1992. But Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic Warren Goldfarb ’69 says that the department’s dire condition and FAS’ still-burgeoning budget deficit led Knowles to question Linguistics’ place in Harvard’s liberal arts curriculum...