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Winning colleagues over one by one enabled Knowles to grease the wheels of FAS bureaucracy.
By engineering such effective unofficial channels, Knowles was able to give the appearance of wide consensus—which often existed—in favor of his agenda without miring time-sensitive initiatives in red tape. While other deans, notably Rosovsky, have been as forceful as Knowles in advocating an...
Knowles also entrusted a great deal of authority to colleagues such as Executive Dean of FAS Nancy L. Maull and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson—professional administrators with no independent agenda. In the past, similar positions have been held by Faculty members who could...
When the opportunity for a wink, a smile, and seamless progress did not exist, Knowles was not afraid to cross colleagues who failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he...
Yet according to Mendelsohn, Knowles was able to minimize the political cost of these interventions by targeting weak departments.