Word: sciencese
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) once-tenuous finances are now overflowing with Capital Campaign money, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote in his annual letter to the Faculty, released yesterday.
Another threat to this "healthy mix," according to Knowles, is the increased presence of older Faculty members following the 1993 repeal of the mandatory retirement age of 70. In the natural sciences, he wrote, 58 percent of those professors past the age of 70 have chosen to stay on.
The report included statistics from the 1997 and 1998 comprehensive senior surveys and a list of concentrations ranked according to satisfaction level from the 1998 survey. Women's studies, music and literature ranked in the top three for quality advising. English, applied mathematics and physical sciences were at the bottom...
A new Ph.D. program is likely to be approved at the March Faculty meeting. The new degree, available either in social policy and government or social policy and sociology, is a joint endeavor of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).
"The research centers provide the thing that interests faculty, which is research," says David A. Zewinski '76, associate dean for physical resources and planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). "The departments are more based on undergraduate and graduate education--not necessarily the items that most excite faculty...