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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€™ implicit message for the next president is to be a soft-soaping glad-hander, avoid controversial topics, and stick to a politically correct ideology which won’t offend the fragile egos in your midst. Raise money, wear the suit well, and fly under the radar, and my hunch is you’ll be their hero...
...Current students, however, are bound by the strict requirements of the Core, and particularly its limited course offerings. This must change, and it must change for the fall semester. And it doesn’t have to wait for a debate and vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€”the Core office can vastly increase the number of departmental courses that satisfy Core requirements by expediting the approval process, and it needs to do so this spring.The dearth of Core courses is problematic for two reasons. First, in any given semester, the number of courses that satisfy...
...similar note, we hope the UC does not act on suggestions of holding a campus referendum of student confidence in University President Lawrence H. Summers. Setting aside our opposition to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€™ (FAS) upcoming vote, conducting a student poll would have a highly tenuous basis. The relationship between Summers and students is often ambiguous and students’ understanding of that relationship far from adequate. These problems are compounded by the fact that any phrasing of the question would have undue influence over the outcome of a binary poll. Finally, we are concerned that...
...Applied Sciences (12) (Narayanamurti’s full title actually weighs in at a whopping 30 words: “John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean for the Physical Sciences?...
...announced the plan and University President Lawrence H. Summers endorsed it early in yesterday’s Faculty meeting, before professors began lobbing verbal darts at the president. A seven-professor subset of the Faculty Council—the 19-member governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€”will participate in the selection of a dean search committee under the plan...