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Under his watch, the Faculty raised more than $1 billion for capital projects and Knowles personally oversaw major initiatives across all major academic areas.
In the arena of undergraduate education, Knowles created a committee to help him continually review the quality of the Faculty’s curriculum. He lobbied for expanded freshman seminars, smaller sections and closer interaction between students and professors.
In recent years, Knowles made increasing the size of the Faculty a priority. But, though in the past decade the number of tenured Faculty increased by a tenth, Knowles fell far short of his goal of endowing 40 new professorships.
With charisma, humor and patience, Knowles shaped an agenda of fiscal discipline, expansion and quality control.
Yesterday morning Knowles sent a letter to the Faculty via e-mail notifying professors of his resignation.