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Faust’s recent decision to appoint Michael D. Smith, who has, in her words, “been so involved” in life outside the classroom, to the FAS deanship seems to indicate a push to increase the dean’s role in undergraduate life. Smith is chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics Sports at Harvard and worked on a review of life in Cabot House...
When she takes office on July 1, Faust will have to consider the implementation of the new calendar. At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faust will have the help of computer scientist Michael D. Smith, who was appointed to the deanship on Monday...
...planned University-wide capital campaign was put on hold during the turmoil of the Summers presidency. Faust now appears poised to jump-start the fundraising drive, and administrators say that filling the deanship vacancies is a necessary step to begin the academic planning for the campaign...
...With the ascension of McKay Professor of Computer Science Michael D. Smith to the FAS deanship, we hope that a higher priority will be placed on the improvement of undergraduate life. While Smith will have to deal with a budget deficit and a slew of different priorities, we are hopeful that undergraduate life will not be neglected in budgeting and fundraising during his tenure...
...clients include Corning, which was chaired by Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 until April of this year.Smith will step down as the chief scientist and chairman of Liquid Machines but will remain a member of board when he assumes the deanship, he said last night. Smith’s experience in the corporate world could give him a leg up in fundraising for the Faculty, which faces a deficit projected to grow to $75 million by fiscal year 2010 amidst major building projects and extensive Faculty hiring earlier in the decade. Both Faust...