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Many influential department and committee chairs oppose the lack of moral reasoning and quantitative reasoning requirements in the November report of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s General Education Committee, according to informal minutes of Caucus of Chairs’ meetings...
...While individual professors and students have criticized the lack of moral and quantitative reasoning requirements, at events such as a Nov. 16 forum for faculty and students and the Nov. 23 meeting of the full Faculty, the Caucus meeting minutes obtained by the Crimson provide the first evidence of how widespread such feelings are within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...minutes, the chairs voice concerns about a perceived lack of transparency between the FAS administration and professors, particularly with regard to Kirby’s unexpected decision this summer to sharply curtail the number of authorized searches for new faculty this year...
...five year plan, or a disinclination to let dept. chairs know what [the plan] is,” the Sept. 15 minutes read. “The haphazard way in which this decision was reported to the chairs did not get an adequate response at the retreat, and the lack of an explanation of what the near future may bring makes it difficult if not impossible for chairs to plan for their own curricular needs...
...minutes shows that professors questioned the financial constraints given as the cause of the slowdown, pointing to Harvard’s $25.9 billion endowment. Some said the decision indicated a lack of long-term planning for faculty hiring on the part of the administration...