Dean Michael D. Smith said he will shrink the number of professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ending a decade-long expansion in order to offset the school’s $110 million deficit.
Harvard University’s “labyrinthine” library system should be drastically restructured in the next few years, according to the Task Force on University Libraries’ report released yesterday.
The lone pitchers of water added insult to injury for the up and coming academics about to attempt the hardest job market in decades. The irony of food cutbacks for this meeting was simply cruel.
The Faculty of Arts and Science held an open discussion to update the name of the Harvard Extension School at yesterday’s Faculty meeting in an effort to align the name with that of peer institutions and with the century-old program’s current mission.
Unpredictable changes in class enrollment this year have confounded the process of assigning section leaders for the fall semester, drawing out professors’ concerns about larger section sizes.