For all the optimism surrounding Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith’s recent announcement about a windfall surplus in the school’s budget, some professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting questioned the school’s health in light of the cutbacks that have occurred.
The University has its own Facebook fan page, Twitter feed, and publication that's now updated online daily. But it isn't the only Harvard institution looking to release news on its own platform.
In a move that clarified why administrators have tamed fiscal messages of late after months of stressing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ impending financial deficit, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith delivered the news Friday that the school had posted a $58.6 million surplus in its unrestricted funds for the fiscal year that ended June 2009.
FAS Dean Michael D. Smith delivered the news Friday that the school had posted a $58.6 million surplus in its unrestricted funds for the fiscal year that closed in June 2009.
Hollywood has just announced their cast for the Facebook movie (officially called The Social Network)—and it is an interesting cast, to say the least. And just so you don't have to wait until 2010 to evaluate the cast's acting skills, FlyBy has rated each member based on acting ability and their fit for the role.
Universitiesandcolleges.org' September survey of university-run Twitter accounts recently revealed some pretty interesting results: Harvard has the the most Twitter followers out of any U.S. university—with 18,955 total. (Stanford is a distant second with 10,873 followers.)