Office of the Secretary of the FAS

Commencement Parts—...is primarily responsible for choosing the three Commencement speakers and coaching their oratory skills

Richard J. Tarrant (chair), Reverend J. Gomes, Jacqueline A. O'Neill, John P. Reardon Jr., Michael Shinagel.

Continuing Education—...oversees the formation and implementation of educational policy governing continuing education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harry R. Lewis (chair), Davíd Carrasco, Patricia Rowe Chaput, Warren Goldfarb, Robert Lue, Nancy L. Maull, B. C. Mazur, Christie McDonald, Gregory Nagy.

General Scholarships and the Sheldon Fund—...is responsible for overseeing the administration of slightly more than one hundred funds which have been assigned to the Committee without specific assignment by the donor to one particular school. These funds include Scholarships, Fellowships, Traveling Fellowships, a few Trust Funds, Beneficiary Aid Funds and a small number of Loan Funds.

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (chair), the Deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Deans of the Faculties of Business Administration, Dental Medicine, Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Law, Medicine, and Public Health.

Information Technology—... oversees the Faculty's computer services and advises the Dean on information technology policies and priorities.

Craig P. Hunter (chair), Nancy Cline, James Cuff, Howard M. Georgi III, Catherine Gorodentsev, J. Richard Hackman, Georgene Herschbach, Jacques Laflamme, Henry H. Leitner, Lawrence M. Levine, Harry R. Lewis, Daniel Moriarty, Deborah Orr, Jennifer Roberts, Margo Seltzer.

Library—...reviews and advised the Dean on major policies governing the Harvard College Library, including policies concerned with circulation, fees, hours of operation, acquisitions, new media, collection development, management and preservation, information technology, physical spaces, the disposition of the collections, and the Harvard Depository.

Robert Darnton (chair), Richard W. Wrangham (vice chair), M. Shahab Ahmed, Joyce Chaplin, Nancy Cline (ex officio), Tom Conley, Stacey Combes, David A. Haig (on leave 2009-10), Jennifer Hochschild (on leave fall term), Farish A. Jenkins (on leave 2009-10), Curtis T. McMullen, Debra Orr, Stephanie Sandler, Mark J. Schiefsky (on leave 2009-10), Stuart M. Shieber, Xiaofei Tian, Nicholas Watson.

Pedagogical Improvement—...was created to assure the continuation and development of the Derek Bok Center on Teaching and Learning.

Jay M. Harris (chair), Noël Bisson (ex officio), Glenda Carpio, Mary M. Gaylord, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Thomas F. Kelly, Robert Lue, Eric Mazur.

Professional Conduct—...was appointed to advise the Dean and individual faculty members on problems involving conflicts of interest and commitment. It is also responsible for a first review of allegations of such matters as plagiarism or falsification of data by a member of the faculty or research staff.

Dennis Thompson, Mahzarin Banaji, Peter T. Ellison (on leave 2009-10) , Gary J. Feldman, Alyssa Goodman, Eric N. Jacobsen, David R. Liu, Richard M. Losick, Thomas M. Scanlon, John H. Shaw.

Women—...is responsible for monitoring all phases of the status of women in the University to insure that at all levels, from incoming freshman to full professor, women have the freedom, security and respect needed to elicit their greatest personal development and contribution to the community.

(2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Elena M. Kramer (co-chair) (on leave fall term), Susan J. Pharr (co-chair), Lizabeth Cohen, Caroline M. Elkins, Rachelle Gaudet, Michèle Lamont, Lisa M. McGirr (on leave 2008-2009), Katharine Park (on leave fall term), Mylène Priam (on leave 2008-2009), Leah Price, Lisa Randall (on leave spring term), Stephanie Sandler, Margo I. Seltzer, Susanna Siegel (on leave spring term), Mary M. Steedly (on leave 2008-2009), Rebecca Wassarman.