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This “careful” consultation typically enables Knowles to present consensus decisions to the larger Faculty and avoid the “controversial tone” that Jorgenson says characterized the Rosovsky era.
When Knowles took over in July 1991, the protests of 1969 were a distant memory. More immediate was FAS’ operating deficit of $12 million—the result of planned deficit spending by Spence that spiraled out of control. Confronting the deficits, Knowles had little time to ask...
His first step as Dean was to write a letter to the Faculty warning them of FAS’ dire financial straits and to brace them for the “brutal” measures he would impose—including a three-year freeze on departmental budget growth. Knowles...
By many accounts, Knowles has simultaneously increased faculty consultation from the Spence era and streamlined FAS bureaucracy. In addition to adding two effective committees, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) and the Resources Committee, according to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Vincent J. Tompkins, Knowles always tests big ideas against the...
Knowles says he aims to be ``carefully consultative, while trying to avoid overloading the faculty and diverting them more to administration and away from their teaching and scholarly work.”