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...past year, FAS has undergone a tumultuous budgeting process that included various town hall meetings conducted by Smith, who trumpeted the need for massive “reshaping?? to confront a looming $220 million deficit brought on by the financial crisis...
...following month, Smith called for a comprehensive “reshaping?? of FAS to close the two-year $220 million deficit, $130 million of which would need to be addressed in the current fiscal year...
...undergraduate Computer Science course last spring, even though he’s technically granted a teaching exemption as a high-level administrator. But with budget cuts looming large, he won’t be teaching any undergraduate classes this year. Smith’s next task: “reshaping?? the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (composed of Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Extension School) into a smaller, more efficient entity, and slashing FAS’s remaining $143 million deficit by the summer...
...absence of any clear directive has cast doubt on Smith’s own grasp of the situation. “The Dean doesn’t exactly know himself what this ‘reshaping?? will mean,” said Classics Department Chair John M. Duffy, calling Smith’s dialect “a visionary approach without exactly having a vision...
...after two years at the helm, the honeymoon phase has passed, and there is growing impatience at the vagueness “reshaping?? has come to represent. “There are a lot of open questions at this point,” Hamburger says. “I wish Dean Smith well...