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...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...
Although Fox is technically Moore's subordinate, the responsibility for implementing much of the Strauch agenda would fall on his shoulders. With almost 15 years of experience in the University administration, he should be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead...
Beyond its admonitions about graduate student teaching and research, the Strauch Report offers no prescriptions for educational policy at the GSAS. Moore will have to chart her own course if she wishes to abandon the laissez faire style of her predecessors and assert herself in the school's academic mission...
Spence said that he expects the new deans to follow the recommendations of the Strauch report--a study commissioned by Spence last year and completed last spring--which calls for a series of changes in the administrative structure of the GSAS. More specifically, it called for changes such as the establishment of the new two-dean system, methods for fundraising and a possible move in location for the GSAS administrative offices...
Spence said he also hopes to see Fox oversee a program that would help better integrate the GSAS with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is a change also recommended in the Strauch report. He added that while the GSAS "deserves a life of its own, at the administrative level, closer relations with the College are needed."A. MICHAEL SPENCE...