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...match the new economic reality. Relative to the capital aspirations from one year ago, FAS has reduced the capital plan for the next two years by more than 50 percent. Only projects that are cash-funded or critical to the maintenance of the FAS’s primary mission – such as essential life-safety upgrades and expenditures associated with faculty recruitment – will be funded in the near term. That said, FAS will continue to reinvest in its nearly 10 million square feet of academic, research, and housing space in order to maintain the facilities...
...rely heavily on the endowment to fund our teaching and research mission. We have identified a number of endowment funds that are not being utilized. We have analyzed the terms of these endowments to identify areas where the endowment income can be used, in line with the donors’ intent, to make a positive impact within the FAS or for interdisciplinary priorities of the FAS across the University. These changes will serve to protect our academic programs from unnecessary reductions...
...review of all of FAS’s off-campus leases is currently underway, and further reductions in spending in this area are expected. While moves such as this will mean tighter quarters for some support staff, this step is necessary to free up resources to support core mission areas...
...placing requests for new and replacement staff under greater scrutiny than ever before. Requests for replacement and new staff positions, as well as reclassification requests, must be justified from both mission and business perspectives. In light of the continuing economic challenge, this is the most prudent path toward conserving our precious resources and preserving employment for our existing staff base to support our mission and pursue our academic priorities...
...there were plenty of challenges for scripters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who wrote MI3 and the new generation of Transformers epics, and have worked with Abrams on his TV shows. Their mission was to graft the characters from the original show onto a modern sensibility. Creator Gene Roddenberry was fond of moral and political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews...