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In the last five years, the University has moved toward a tenure track process that looks to promote professors from within the community. As a result, FAS chooses its junior faculty under the assumption that they will ride the tenure track through to a full professorship.
But even as Smith successfully trims a daunting budget deficit, his approach has struck a nervous chord among faculty members who benefit from the incongruent academic and spending methods of the school. Led by affiliates of some of the traditionally independent FAS centers, they have voiced concerns that an overarching...
Department and center administrators say they have spent many additional hours under scrutiny from the FAS budget office as the two sides come to a consensus on expenditure priorities—a decision on which FAS has final say.
Kleinman took part in a series of meetings with the dean and finance officers from FAS as they sought to arrive at a common ground on what contributions were expected of the centers.
Centers had been asked to make sacrifices, as they are quick to point out. But they do not represent the only sectors of FAS where personal priorities have been pushed aside as the “core mission” takes priority.