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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wants to overturn the law of supply and demand.
Skocpol’s penchant for controversy, however, has not been without its costs. Most notably, it recently backfired in her widely rumored campaign to become the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Her leadership style, which interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles tactfully...
New hires in the social sciences and arts and humanities accounted for most of that growth, Knowles said, and FAS now lags behind Yale, Princeton, and Stanford in the proportion of faculty in the natural sciences.
Knowles stressed that as FAS grows, the distribution of professors across the disciplines should be motivated not by the need for teachers alone, but also “to achieve a deeper range of scholarly excellence.”
“Even if (let us say) there was hardly any student interest in physics or philosophy, it would be quite improper not to have the best Physics or Philosophy departments that we could build,” Knowles wrote.