Word: knowleses
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The Faculty of Arts and Science's budget deficit this year is down to approximately one half of a million dollars. Dean of the Faculty Jeferry R. Knowles told the Faculty Council yesterday.
Knowles also discussed the success of tenure offers. Four years ago, approximately two-thirds of the offers made were accepted. In the last four-year period, however, about three-quarters of tenure offers were accepted.
In a letter last month. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles seemed to dismiss many of the recommendations made by a student advisors committee report on the studs of ethnic studies at Harvard. Issued just before Commencement.
"There is surely no one way, and no single methodology, to study race and ethnicity," Knowles wrote in an August 25 letter to the student members of the Academic Affairs Committee who authored the report "Such studies properly flourish in the humanities and in the social sciences. It makes no...
By second-guessing one of its own tenured faculty, the University is violating the sacred pact that has allowed ideas of all kinds to flourish for so many years. Even worse, the Medical School has set an unfortunate precedent for future episodes involving unorthodox professors. The incident raises some troubling...