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A fundraising source said that a final decision on the capital drive would probably come from President Derek C. Bok and the Corporation this winter, and Spence said the effort would probably move into "relatively higher gear" during the next academic year.
"Because Harvard is still the leader inAmerican higher education, it falls to us tocreate a viable vision of the research universityfor the next century and to turn that vision intoa reality," Spence wrote.
Spence wrote that FAS should improve itsstudent advising system and increase opportunitiesfor interaction between students and faculty. Toaccomplish this end, FAS will have to expand, hesaid.
Because Harvard risks losing out in scienceeducation to competitors such as Stanford,Princeton, MIT and the California Institute oftechnology, Spence wrote that the University mustdecide which scientific fields it can excel in,and devote new resources to them.
Spence wrote that FAS should also shore up itsfaculty strength in Latin American and MiddleEastern studies and provide "full funding" for theHarvard Academy for International and Foreign AreaStudies, which seeks to nurture young scholars inthe field.