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What appears to be Spence's most immediate priority, however, is his review of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Spence appointed Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch to head a review committee. The last such review of the GSAS, completed in 1969, recommended a reduction in the size of the graduate school. No major changes have occurred in the GSAS since then, according to Assistant Dean of the College John R. Marquand...
...professors hope that the Strauch Committee will further dismantle the obtrusive GSAS bureaucracy, they are likely to be disappointed McKinney predicts. The committee may recommend "exactly what we're doing now. I frankly think it's a certain outcome...
...Strauch Committee is expected to analyze the GSAS's role in the 1980s and 1990s, says Peter S. McKinney, Spence's acting dean of the grad school for the academic year. The major issues appear to be should the GSAS expand to meet the larger academic job market of the 1990s, and if so how much; should the GSAS prepare students solely for academic life; what structure of admissions, advising, and placement should be implemented; what balance should the GSAS draw between departmental autonomy and Byerly Hall centralization...
...Strauch and Spencer were unavailable for comment this week...
Further evidence of Spence's interest in the GSAS is a high-level faculty committee he is in the process of appointing to study the GSAS. This committee, to be headed by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch, will provide the first comprehensive look at the GSAS since...