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One of his major goals this year, Knowles said, is to increase the size of the Faculty. Adding new professorships would help reduce the size of classes and the overall student-faculty ratio.
Knowles pointed to the recent renovations of academic buildings, but he also said that to ensure office space for additional faculty long-term space planning is necessary.
While increasing Faculty size, Knowles said that there will be a special emphasis on building up the science departments.
Because many Faculty members in scientific fields are expected to retire in the next five years, more tenures will be offered to scientists, Knowles said. The University has already begun filling these positions, hiring unprecedented numbers of scholars in the physics and astronomy departments.
To help in the search for new Faculty members in the sciences, Knowles announced that he has formed a task force to investigate more ways of hiring women Faculty in these traditionally underrepresented areas.