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...letter sent to administrators last month outlining the plan for the coming budgeting process, Dean of Administration and Finance Leslie A. Kirwan ’79 clarified the administration’s current understanding of the working groups’ role, while vowing to adhere more conscientiously to a budgeting tack, embraced over the past year, known as the ”first-dollar principle,” in which restricted funds are spent on a unit’s priorities before unrestricted funds...
...summer, several of the newly coined working groups had yet to meet, even as the deficit was slashed in half. Still, Smith reiterated their crucial role in the ongoing budgeting process...
Following the February Faculty meeting, the dean’s office posted a select set of recommendations that arose out of the budget streamlining process on the newly created FAS Planning Web site. The site noted that FAS had entered an extended “third phase” in its response, following immediate cost-cutting measures and administrative restructuring...
Neal emphasized that the third phase will be a long-term process—a process for which, some professors said, Smith’s centralized oversight is now the key factor...
...priority working group for the Social Sciences, called it “one of the most productive administrative exercises I’ve ever been involved in.” He said that the shift from group recommendations to dean-level decisions appeared consistent with the spirit of the process...