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While the specifics of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith??s proposed administrative reorganization have earned praise from professors, one aspect of the plan has drawn fire: the proposed slowdown in faculty hiring...
...Some suggest that Smith??s fairly smooth ride in pushing his own version of the divisional deanship may be a function of the times. Many professors agree that much of the discontent with the divisional dean structure may have been simply an outgrowth of the turmoil that roiled the Faculty in late 2005 as the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers drew to a close...
...Faculty that had seen three leaders in less than two years prior to his appointment in June. But a key complaint in 2005 was also that the divisional deans’ responsibilities, two years after the position’s inception, remained unclear. And while a stated focus of Smith??s administrative review has been to specify those responsibilities—his handout at the Faculty meeting included a specific list of the deans’ new budgetary powers—he also stated that there would need to be time to vet the new system...
...most prominent of the pending hires will be the one to fill Smith??s new planning position, which he describes as sitting between Brian W. Casey, currently the associate dean for academic affairs, and Robert L. Scalise, the interim executive dean. The eventual appointee will focus on coordinating departmental academic aspirations with available resources...
...thought that some of Dean Smith??s comments were couched in a different kind of language than the kind we usually hear in academia—I suppose more like that of a CEO,” Ryan said of Smith??s comments at the Faculty meeting. “I think that some of the things that he quoted seemed to sound like a business advice book...