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Task Force on Workforce Planning: Design Process Update

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Welcome back to campus. I hope you had a restorative winter break and that the new year is off to a good start. Thank you to all who attended the December town hall hosted by the FAS Task Force on Workforce Planning, where we shared findings from the...

FAS Workforce Planning: Final Notifications This Week

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Dear colleagues, Over the past several weeks, colleagues across the FAS have learned how their roles are positioned in our new administrative services model. Tomorrow and Thursday mark the final days of these notifications for the FAS, with staff in the...

FAS Workforce Planning: Additional Notifications This Week

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Dear colleagues, Tomorrow, staff in the Division of Social Science and Office of Physical Resources and Planning (OPRP) will learn how their roles are positioned within the new administrative model. As in earlier waves, every staff member in these areas...

Share Your Ideas: Task Force on Workforce Planning

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Dear colleagues, On behalf of the FAS Task Force on Workforce Planning, I am writing to share an update on our efforts to reimagine the FAS administrative structure to better support our teaching and research mission while also strengthening the FAS’s...

FAS Task Force on Workforce Planning

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The Task Force on Workforce Planning is charged to identify opportunities to build financial capacity for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and to propose a reimagined administrative model that supports faculty, students, and staff more effectively...

Closing a Difficult Chapter and Looking Ahead

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Dear colleagues, Over the past several weeks, staff members across the FAS whose roles were affected by the transition to our new administrative services model have been notified. Those conversations are now complete. We recognize that this has been an...

Julie Joncas

FAS Leadership

Julie brings more than two decades of leadership experience in higher education, academic medicine, and healthcare finance. She joins us from Harvard Medical School, where she serves as Chief Financial Officer and Finance Dean, leading the School’s...

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Innovating Civil Discourse: An Instructional Design Hackathon

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How do we motivate people to use civil discourse skills in everyday life? How can we help people overcome the tendency to abandon civil discourse practices in a heated conversation, or to abandon the conversation altogether? This hackathon invites...

Ethics in Real Life: Disagreement in the Age of AI

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Inspired by the Ethics in America series aired on PBS in the 1980s, this event will convene a number of scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders in a Socratic-style conversation designed to foster thoughtful, spontaneous exchange rather than prepared...

What Rough Beast...? On AI’s Potential to Surpass Humanity

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The recent explosion of AI capacity, along with booming prophecies about its limitless potential, arrives at a moment of profound unease. Just over a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World War, W.B. Yeats gave poetic form to a similar anxiety...

Welcome Back

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Dear colleagues, The start of a new academic year brings a sense of possibility. We are welcoming new faculty to the FAS, greeting the Class of 2030, and watching Harvard Yard fill as students return to campus and classes begin. This year, that sense of a...