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Overall, it seems, Knowles is an efficient manager, implementing decisions as soon as an educated decision can be made. But it is precisely this style that causes some professors to worry that Knowles is actually circumventing their input.
Critics insist that although Knowles, in the words of one professor, “has done very well by the University and the College, [he] is more comfortable with a top-down way of proceeding.”
Observers inside University Hall say that Knowles deftly slices through administrative obstacles and acting decisively, if not unilaterally, on his convictions.
Knowles initially charged the committee to mount an unofficial review of all undergraduate concentrations. The committee finished its first set of reviews in the fall of 1993 and has continued to review about four concentrations a year, according to EPC member and Professor of Philosophy Richard G. Heck. In addition...
Knowles says he did not have the faculty vote to establish a standing committee on education policy because he was “in a hurry.”