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...beyond that, the entire University,” Darnton said. Smith got his surprise, after all. MAGIC OF NUMBERS After debriefing a nearly full Sanders Theatre about his two-year plan for meeting the deficit, Smith made clear just how steeped he has been in the tumult of FAS finances over the past six months—and his listeners were both grateful and perhaps even pitying. “I think all of us in this room have enormous sympathy for the challenges you have faced in this past year,” said Government Professor Robert D. Putnam...
...response to a looming deficit of $220 million for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences over the next two years, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith called for a broad-based restructuring of the University’s largest school at a town hall meeting yesterday...
...Addressing faculty, staff, and student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, Smith proposed a shift from piecemeal budget cuts to sweeping changes in FAS structure to close a larger-than-expected budgetary...
...Smith also announced that 153 of the 521 eligible FAS staffers have accepted the early retirement incentive package, yielding a participation rate of about 30 percent—double that of a similar program recently conducted at Dartmouth. In the next few days, the administration will begin to analyze the savings of the program, which drew to a close Monday, according to Smith...
...finances before an unprecedented group of stakeholders. In lieu of the regular Faculty meeting that had been scheduled for today, Smith will discuss the budgetary challenges facing the Faculty before opening the floor for questions from professors, staff, and selected student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. The town hall meeting comes one day after the conclusion of an early retirement incentive program offered to FAS staff workers—a milestone in the budgeting process that will provide information necessary to evaluate spending for next year. Staffers who accepted the package during...