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...private interviews with administrators, it’s clear to me that there is a significant amount of dead wood in both organizations, most of it in the areas that have seen the most staff growth in recent years. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith??who, it must be said, is responsible for quite a bit of this bureaucratic overgrowth—should strongly consider laying off some of the following staff before he implements cuts that would have a considerably more adverse effect on students...
...Perhaps the most significant bloat in FAS has come from Smith??s decision to create a new layer of bureaucracy by hiring a significant amount of support staff for each of the three divisional deans. Even during flush times, many professors questioned this strategy, arguing that large divisional offices would be a waste of precious resources on non-academic staff...
...months of the calendar year, making it a 10-month job. Though resident deans said College administrators have been considering these proposed changes since February, strong opposition from students and House administrators to amending the position mounted this week, amid Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith??s announcement on Monday of sweeping cost-cutting measures across the College. House Masters met with College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and University President Drew G. Faust last week to discuss specific budget cuts in the Houses, according to Adams House Master John G. “Sean?...
...Faculty Council moved Wednesday to eliminate five standing faculty committees, some of which were dormant—part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith??s larger initiative to reexamine all standing faculty committees. The Science Center Executive Committee and the FAS Standing Committee on Benefits, which were dissolved, have not met for years. Former FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles originally founded the FAS Standing Committee in 1995 in response to the University administration’s intended one-percent reduction in its contribution to faculty pension funds, which had not been discussed with faculty...
...Smith??s mantra of “reshaping” could mean the diminishment, consolidation, or even elimination of certain departments, Thomas said, calling smaller academic departments that could be at risk one of the Faculty’s greatest strengths...