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Despite their sizes, such departments entail substantive costs: faculty and staff salaries, office space and supplies, and administrative support. Every dollar spent toward small departments is a dollar not spent elsewhere within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—or toward fields that draw far more students...
...opinion piece published in The New York Times, University President Drew G. Faust wrote that in the face of pressure toward preprofessional undergraduate educations, “we should remember that colleges and universities are about a great deal more than measurable utility...
...Mansfield says, “A university is not an institution that is directed toward practice but is meant to cherish the life of the mind...
...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...
Traditionally, the University has not placed enough emphasis on seeking out diversity—in categories like gender and ethnicity—in candidates for faculty positions, according to Lamont. Consequently, she adds, the list of contenders for the professoriate have tended toward homogeny...