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...newest addition to Sterritt’s resume—the College deanship for administration—was originally created for Herschbach in the summer of 2008 as administrative support for then-incoming Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds. At the time, Hammonds sought to mirror the administrative framework of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes an analogous position currently held by FAS Dean for Administration and Finance Leslie A. Kirwan...
...That’s kind of my niche—how one orchestrates the financial angle to support, in the best possible way, the academic mission,” Sterritt said. “What we’ve tried to do at Stanford—insofar as it is possible—is to make the budget cuts invisible to students...
...departures preceded the creation in the fall of 2009 of the Office of Student Life—the consolidation of the College’s Office of Residential Life and Office of Student Life and Activities. The move, which involved cutting five staff positions, would “streamline support for our undergraduates,” Hammonds had said...
...campaign to fill Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat with few backers and comparatively little money, few people expected him to win - or even come close. But thanks to his promise to use his crucial vote to block the Democrats' congressional health care reform bill, he has gained the support of conservative special-interest groups and beat Democratic opponent Martha Coakley in the Jan. 19 special election. This is big news in Massachusetts - and Washington. A Brown victory - for the seat of liberal lion and health care reform champion Ted Kennedy, no less - signals the extent of national discord over...
...like a difficult prospect for two reasons. The first is that House liberals object to many provisions in the more-conservative Senate legislation. The second is that more-conservative Democrats may well be so rattled by the victory of a Republican in Massachusetts that they could reconsider their own support for the measure. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has little margin to work with; the bill passed her chamber in November by only five votes...