At yesterday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, University President Drew G. Faust revealed her weak spot in Latin.

Harvard and MIT have opened large parts of their library collections to undergraduates at both schools in a new partnership ...

Though Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has said that the administration will not implement sweeping staff reductions, some department administrators are nevertheless concerned that their constrained budgets will make personnel restructuring inevitable.

With shelf space running dry in Cambridge, the Harvard Depository is a critical component of the University's vision of the modern library, whose holdings are first found online rather than on the shelves themselves.

Recent Harvard PhD graduates are being tapped to relieve teaching responsibilities formerly covered by visiting faculty across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as departments cut back on the high costs of employing professors from outside the University.

In the midst of last year’s financial crisis, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith assembled six “working groups” to establish top Faculty priorities.

Staff members across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are reporting varying degrees of recovery from last year’s sweeping reductions in staff positions.

After months of silence since an extensive discussion at the Oct. 6 Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, the Harvard Extension School announced yesterday that it had not forgotten plans to change its name.

Two of the University’s largest information technology offices will be merged in an effort to eliminate redundant functions—a move that officials say will improve and standardize a variety of computing processes for students, including e-mail and printing.

Three veteran administrators—two Harvard affiliates and a former member of Massachusetts state government—assumed positions in the top ranks of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ financial administration earlier this month. The appointments come as FAS looks to pare down its budget, which still rests $80 million in the red.