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Since taking over from Acting GSAS Dean Peter S. McKinney last month, Moore has begun confronting a host of difficult reforms to the school's financial and enrollment policies. These reforms were among a host of changes recommended in the Strauch Report, the upshot of the school's first major review in more than 15 years...
...appointment of Fox and Moore comes in the wake of the first major review of Harvard's graduate program in 15 years. The so-called Strauch report, which took a 10-member committee eight months to complete, recommended broad changes in the school's enrollment and financial affairs. One of their recommendations was to add a dean for GSAS administration. Spence's appointment of Fox represents one of the first changes prompted by the Strauch's report's findings...
...professors completed the first major study of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in more than 15 years. Their research revealed a variety of problems at the GSAS and suggested an array of remedies. The committee submitted to the Faculty a 40-page paper known as the Strauch Report, after Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch, who chaired the group. That report's recommendations are summarized below...
Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...
...Strauch Committee reported that most students take too long to complete their graduate work, mainly because they are expected to spend large amounts of time teaching undergraduates...