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Facing at least a $35 million deficit, the FAS budget office communicated the new budgeting approach to the community in the month leading to the March Faculty meeting. The policy required affiliated FAS units??including centers—to fall into line and justify that all their expenditures serve core FAS priorities...
...budgeting process that will place decisions in the hands of FAS finance administrators. In accordance with the “first-dollar principle,” units are being asked to work with FAS administrators to determine “core expenses” and to duly prioritize the units?? restricted resources...
...plural noun. It is a single community, not the sum total of 12 independent institutions that happen to be located in the same zip code. Enforcing restrictions, including but not limited to the new policies at Lowell and Winthrop, only serves to fracture the College into House units??distinctions randomly assigned in freshman spring that should determine only a student’s address, not the quality of his or her overall Harvard experience. While House pride can add a positive dimension to the undergraduate experience, it should derive from more than just exclusionary dining policies...
...blame the language for simplifying? It’s equally possible that society, in its enlightened wisdom, decided not to split hairs—or word units??where it was pointless to do so. This isn’t just the inescapable evolution of the language, as liberal linguists insist so often; it actually seems like a sensible shift to make...
...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...