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...from cash-strapped foundations. While stimulus funds have temporarily swelled the budgets of federal science agencies, the long-term picture for government funding is hazy at best, and may fall victim to deficit-cutting two years from now. Within Harvard, the deans and central administrators have had the unenviable task of cutting budgets in order to match our expenses to our newly constrained resources. We have all spent many hours since October engaged in these painful exercises...
...Harvard stronger in priority areas in the near term, albeit with smaller investments than we would make in other times. These committees, made up of faculty members and deans, include the Harvard University Committee on Science and Engineering, the University Planning Committee on Social Sciences, and the University Library Task Force...
...category, or more mathematical rigor in order to make it fall under “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” according to Li. Although Mankiw declined an interview request for this article, he wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson in April 2008 that the Task Force on General Education had “inadequate appreciation of the role of analytic social science,” and that the debate over where Ec10 fits in Gen Ed is “a symptom of these flaws.” The Economics Department’s leadership?...
...Whomever Faust ends up choosing to permanently succeed Kagan, that person faces the monumental task of not only stepping into the shoes of the most popular Law School Dean in recent memory but also managing a budget squeezed by a precipitous fall in the University endowment and making difficult decisions as to how to restructure a large, hallowed institution that just a few years ago was known for infighting among faculty and a lack of concern for student life...
...thought in the last year or so, you and this class sort of drew the short straw,” said Kagan, who graduated from the Law School in 1986. “But within all this difficulty there is also incredible potential and promise, and yours is the task of finding that promise by remaking the world.” Law School students have often been too risk-averse or too unwilling to take chances in the past, Kagan said—especially in a past when major law firms offered job security and six-figure salaries...