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The ongoing faculty expansion will dominate the list of problems with which the new FAS dean will have to deal, and it will take all of his or her intellect, political acumen, and strength to rise to the challenge. He or she will, however, have a blueprint, albeit a flawed...
In the letter, Knowles proposes that nearly every professorship added by the faculty expansion go to the sciences. That’s not to say that non-science departments will get no new professors; they will be able to replace departing and retiring faculty to maintain their size and may...
Knowles is right to make the sciences a top research priority because science will in large part define the great 21st Century research institution. Science research plays an important role in Harvard’s societal mission, and as science becomes increasingly complex and specialized, it will take a larger...
Knowles defended his decision to ignore “raw teaching need” by pointing out that “even if the hiring of new faculty could be nimble enough to respond to changing student interests, we are a Faculty, not a factory.” But Harvard...
Yesterday’s gathering provided the Faculty with its first chance to consider the general education legislation, which a three-professor committee translated from the final proposal released in February. The full Faculty will have to address all of the amendments before voting on the revised legislation; Dean of...