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When asked to define her vision last month, University President Drew G. Faust stopped for a moment...
...decentralization is epitomized by a spate of centers and institutes. Developed across the school in the last 50 years, these hubs, many of them interdisciplinary, are composed of faculty members and affiliates with shared interests and the funds to act on them—distinct from degree-granting academic departments that focus on student instruction in the classroom...
Wielding the power of the purse, Smith has sought to channel spending and reconcile a “disconnect” between academic and budgetary planning that he described in last year’s Dean’s report...
Martha L. Minow’s appointment as dean of Harvard Law School last year is emblematic of Faust’s desire to integrate the different parts of the University. Minow—whose own scholarly output has garnered praise for pulling from a variety of fields of study—oversaw the reform of the Law School curriculum towards a more interdisciplinary model...
...University gears up for the next capital campaign, Faust has suggested that financial aid will be a focus of its concerted fundraising efforts. (The University’s last capital campaign, which ended in 1999, raised $3.3 billion in today’s dollars...