Faculty of Arts and Sciences Planning
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Working Groups
Beginning in the fall of 2008, departments, centers, and administrative units in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences began a planning process to identify a range of possible cost savings to bring short-term and long-term budgets in line with our new economic reality. Their efforts identified more than $75 million in cost-savings. As a result of this effort, we now project a $20 million unrestricted deficit for FY10, and our projected FY11 deficit has been cut in half, from $220 million to $110 million.
In the coming months, we will continue a process launched in April to prioritize academic and intellectual activities so as to guide further budget reductions and to reshape FAS programs for long-term fiscal sustainability.
On April 14, 2009, Dean Michael D. Smith announced the appointment of six ad hoc working groups to drive this process. The groups exist both to generate informed recommendations -- drawing on the latest financial and organizational information -- and to delineate clearly the sacrifices we will not make as we resize our activities to match our shrinking budgets. Each group is working to provide important intellectual principles and academic priorities that will guide further cost-cutting efforts. With this guidance in hand, we will be able to evaluate ideas and suggestions generated by all parts of our community for further cost-savings while maintaining the integrity of our programs, our students, our faculty, and our staff.
Working groups:
- College - student services [Membership]
- College - academic [Membership]
- Division of Arts and Humanities [Membership]
- Division of Sciences [Membership]
- Division of Social Sciences [Membership]
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences [Membership]
Chair
Evelynn M. Hammonds Dean of Harvard College; Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
Staff to the Working Group
Susan Marine Assistant Dean of Student Life and Director, Harvard Women's Center
Members
Paul Barreira Director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling; Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Jordan Bock '10 Undergraduate Council
Johnny Bowman '11 Undergraduate Council
Jenny Cao '10 Student representative-at-large
Tom Dingman Dean of Freshman
Diana Eck Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society; Master of Lowell House
Andrea Flores '10 President, Undergraduate Council
Claudine Gay Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies
Lee Gehrke Master of Quincy House; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology; Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Paul J. McLoughlin II Assistant Dean of Harvard College and Senior Aide to the Dean of Harvard College
Robin Mount Interim Director of the Office of Career Services
Suzy Nelson Dean for Student Life
John Shaw Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology; Harvard College Professor
Kate Stanton Allston Burr Resident Dean of Currier House; Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Andrew Velo-Arias ’11 student representative-at-large
Chair
Evelynn M. Hammonds Dean of Harvard College; Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
Staff to the Working Group
R.J. Jenkins Teaching Fellow in English and American Literature and Language; Tutor in Lowell House
Members
Allan M. Brandt Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of the History of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine (In the Faculty of Medicine)
Michael Canfield Allston Burr Resident Dean in Eliot House; Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Ned Hall Head Tutor, Professor of Philosophy
Jay Harris Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies; Dean of Undergraduate Education; Master of Cabot House
John Huth Donner Professor of Science
Eric Jacobsen Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry
Tom Jehn Interim Director of Expository Writing; Preceptor in Expository Writing
Barry Kane Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Max Kornblith ’10 Student representative-at-large
Athena Lao ‘12 Undergraduate Council
Marlyn McGrath Director of Admissions for Harvard College
Roger Porter Master of Dunster House: IBM Professor of Business and Government in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government
Dimitrije Ruzic ’10 Undergraduate Council
Kay Shelemay G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies
Merav Silverman ’11 Student representative-at-large
Chairs
Diana Sorensen James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature; Dean of Arts and Humanities
Members
Allan Brandt Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine; Professor of the History of Science; Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Anne Shreffler James Edward Ditson Professor of Music; Department Chair of Music
Homi Bhabha Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities; Director of the Humanities Center
Jim Engell Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Jan Ziolkowski Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin; Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Lizabeth Cohen Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies; Department Chair of History
Noel Bisson Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education; Member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Associate of the Department of Music
Tom Cummins Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
Virginie Greene Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Harvard College Professor
Staffing
Sara Oseasohn Associate Dean for Administration for Arts and Humanities
Heather Lantz Assistant Dean for Arts and Humanities
Chairs
Jeremy Bloxham Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics and Professor of Computational Science; Dean of Science
Members
Cynthia Friend Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science
Jeff Lichtman Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Tutor in Biochemical Sciences
David Pilbeam Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution; Curator of Paleoanthropology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Christopher Stubbs Professor of Physics and of Astronomy
Staffing
Russ Porter Administrative Dean for Science
Stephen Kargere Assistant Dean for Science
Raelyn Lincoln Senior Aide to the Dean of Science
Stephanie Kenen Associate Dean of Harvard College and Administrative Director of the Program in General Education; Member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Composition and Process
The working group, which will not be staffed, will be used as a think-tank/sounding-board before bringing proposals to Science Council. The Science Council includes all of the Science chairs.
Chairs
Stephen Kosslyn John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James; Dean of Social Science
Members
Theodore Bestor (Phase 1) Professor of Anthropology
John Campbell (Phase 1) Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics; Visiting Scholar; Harvard College Professor
Anne Harrington (Phase 1) Professor of the History of Science; Harvard College Professor
Robert Sampson (Phase 1) Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences; Senior Adviser
Daniel Carpenter (Phase 1) Allie S. Freed Professor of Government; Director of the Center for American Political Studies
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Phase 1) Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor; Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Gary King (Phase 1) David Florence Professor of Government; Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Andrew Gordon (Phase 1) Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Beth Ann Simmons (Phase 1) Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs; Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Evelynn Hammonds (Phase 2) Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies; Dean of Harvard College
Dennis Thompson (Phase 2) Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Susan Pharr (Phase 2) Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Associate of Lowell House; Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Staffing
Beverly Beatty Associate Dean for Administration for Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Chairs
Frans Spaepen John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor in Applied Physics; Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director of the Rowland Institute
Cherry Murray Incoming Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Members
Frans Spaepen John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor in Applied Physics; Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director of the Rowland Institute
Cherry Murray Incoming Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Michael Aziz Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science
Lene Hau Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics
Robert Howe Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering; Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Navin Khaneja Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
David Mooney Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering; Associate Dean for Applied Chemical/Biological Sciences and Engineering
Gregory Morrisett Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science; Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering
Steven Wofsy Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science; Associate of Harvard Forest
Marie Dahleh Assistant Dean for for Academic Programs; Lecturer on Engineering Sciences
Harry Dumay Associate Dean for Finance and CFO
Fawwaz Habbal Executive Dean; Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics
Edward Kleifgen Associate Dean for Administration and Academic Affairs
Composition and Process
SEAS will use a preexisting governance committee as its working group. This committee is called the C-7 since it is comprised of 7 faculty members representing the 7 research areas in SEAS as well as the SEAS Dean and 4 SEAS administrators.
The Harvard College working groups, chaired by Dean Evelynn Hammonds, include faculty and staff, and will work closely with student groups.
Dean Allan Brandt and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are working closely with each of these groups to ensure that the priorities of the Graduate School are appropriately addressed. There will not be a separate working group for the Graduate School because its major costs cannot easily be separated from the academic departments or our undergraduate teaching mission.
The FAS also continues to work at the University level on the four ongoing University-wide administrative taskforces looking at enhancing revenue streams, business operations efficiencies (information technology, procurement, and real estate), endowment, and human resources best practices.
The ad hoc working groups’ recommendations to Dean Smith and the FAS Academic Planning Group will impact budget planning for FY11. A timeline for their activities can be found here.
