Harvard faculty recently discussed its current stance against allowing Google Books to scan the University’s vast collection of copyrighted material.

The Library Implementation Group, charged this fall with making concrete changes to the University library system by the winter of 2010, will instead generate another, more specific round of proposals at the end of its one-year tenure.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is nearing the end of a redesigned budgeting process used to help reduce a deficit that currently stands at $80 million.

The Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department’s plans to eventually inhabit the Allston Science Complex are growing increasingly uncertain, though biology professors have begun the exodus from their long-standing Cambridge facility to make way for the incoming stem cell researchers.

After his speaking engagement in Chennai, India last Thursday, Harvard Business School Professor Robert S. Kaplan planned to spend the weekend hiking in Switzerland before giving another speech in Frankfurt, Germany.

Some members of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology have begun the long-awaited exodus out of their laboratories to make room for a centralized space for stem cell researchers.

Diana Sorensen, divisional dean of the arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will resume her administrative duties in 2011 after a year-long sabbatical, marking a reversal in her initial decision to vacate the post.

The average Harvard faculty member’s salary increased by 0.4 percent this academic year—well below the average increase of 1.2 percent in college and university salaries across the nation.

Last fall, the Bok Center began a pilot program called “Oral Communications Skills Course For International TFs.”