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...Although every budgetary plan eventually “rolls up” to Smith’s office for final review, his purview is much too vast to allow much attention to details. “I did not go through all the different proposals from all the different units. That would be crazy,” Smith said in an interview last week, about proposals for cuts sent in by units over the past few months. Instead, he focuses on recommendations flagged as “affecting multiple units” or with far-reaching consequences...
...about the impact,” says Robert G. Doyle, FAS Associate Dean, who sends the budgets for the five administrative units under his purview directly to Sweet. “Brett Sweet is concerned about the impact of the reductions that he and others recommend, but it is Mike Smith who is the bottom line...
...From there, an ad hoc committee to explore the possibility of building a great books program—co-chaired by Armitage and English professor Marjorie Garber—formed this year under the purview of the Gen Ed committee...
...inaugural effort to streamline the operations of Harvard’s scattered science libraries, four will merge underneath the administrative purview of Harvard College Library in July. The Physics, Statistics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Mathematics departmental libraries will report to Lynne M. Schmelz, the librarian of Cabot and Tozzer Libraries, which fall within HCL. The remaining science libraries will see plans for an eventual administrative transfer to HCL, which manages the circulation of over 11 million items. The news—which was e-mailed to members of the library system by Jeremy Bloxham, dean of science...
During her tenure, the soft-spoken leader has seen her purview expand to include a large-scale renovation of Memorial Hall and the freshman dorms in addition to founding Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program, which helps University employees improve their English language skills...