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Brett C. Sweet, dean of administration and finance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will leave Harvard in late July to assume the role of Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer at Vanderbilt University, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced Thursday morning...
Sweet will leave less than a year after he first arrived on campus in September, as Harvard's endowment was on its way to an unprecedented four-month decline of 22 percent that would mean sweeping budget cuts for Harvard's largest school. A stalwart presence at Smith's side during these cutbacks and layoffs, Sweet has served a crucial role in the FAS administration, which has found itself saddled with a $220 million annual deficit to close over the next two years...
...These positions are critical to our future. That’s why, as I understood there was no way to keep Brett, we immediately started to look at how we could fill in for him,” Smith said in an interview Thursday, adding that he has made adjustments to his own schedule to ensure that the national search for a replacement becomes a high priority. “We’re not wasting any time...
...Smith said Sweet told him of the news “just recently,” sometime during June, but he declined to provide a precise date. The news came as a surprise, Smith said, adding that despite the FAS leader’s best efforts to convince Sweet to stay, the finance dean stood firm...
...made his decision, and I respected that,” Smith said...