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...applaud the fact that one of the first decisions made by Michael Spence, new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), was to commission a group of faculty members to reevaluate the Graduate School (GSAS). The result of the Strauch Committee's several months' work has recently been made public. Although their suggestions include issues as provocative as reallocation of university funds (increasing reorganizing the administration, little discussion has been generated thus far. As graduate students who reported to the Strauch Committee, we lament this and hope that the report will be more widely read and openly debated...
...report, which addresses issues ranging from financial aid to graduate student social life, focuses specifically on ways to improve interaction between the central GSAS administration and the individual academic departments, said Karl Strauch, Leverett Professor of Physics and chairman of the committee which produced the report, in an interview with the Crimson several weeks...
...Strauch could not be reached for comment yesterday...
However, the Strauch report did make some specific recommendations. Aside from the relocation of the GSAS offices from Byerfy Hall to centrally located University Hall, the report calls for two deans to share the responsibilities for the GSAS administration. The School has in the past been run by a dean and associate dean. Currently, Peter S. McKinney, associate dean of the GSAS, is the acting dean...
...Strauch report also recommends that each department establish a '"normal' graduate career length." Depending on the department the length could range from 4 to 6 years...