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...Smith??€™s changes will grant divisional deans budgetary authority and allow them to authorize searches for faculty, while installing new administrators under them. For a Faculty that as recently as 2005 sharply criticized what they perceived as the increasing and inefficient bureaucratization of FAS, the measures were potentially disquieting...
...proposed changes represent Smith??€™s first major administrative overhaul since he took office last summer, and they mark the culmination of a lengthy administrative review process that he launched in the fall with the help of paid consultants. Much of the content of the remarks to the Faculty had previously been presented to the Caucus of Chairs, an informal but influential body of FAS department heads and committee chairs that was formed in 2005 and that strongly criticized the divisional deanships and administrative expansion in the fall of that year...
...Perhaps partly as a result of the careful build-up, department heads have been guarded about offering their opinions of Smith??€™s project. Since the announcement, The Crimson issued repeated requests for comment to 17 active members of FAS who served as chairs in 2005. Only one responded with an on-the-record statement...
...four current chairs who offered statements on the matter expressed support for Smith??€™s administrative reforms. But another chair, who asked to remain anonymous so as to protect relationships with colleagues, said in an e-mail that in fact there were “several chairs strongly opposed to divisional deans...
...bowels of Harvard University Science Center’s abandoned no-man’s land, something stirred. Students were alarmed and upset when they arrived at the building for their Thursday morning classes to find it roped off with security tape and evacuated. Dean Michael D. Smith??€™s announcement reassured students that while the closure was due to a chemical spill, classes would be able to resume as usual later that afternoon. The Science Center has long been a central hub for students and faculty alike. A testament to man’s scientific endeavors...