So the review committee, comprised of Pilbeam, Wolcowitz, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Planning Carol J. Thompson, Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, plans to meet with each of the Faculty's concentrations by next year.

In each concentration meeting, the review panel will meet with the department chair, the head tutor and other relevant professors.

Department members will present the committee with information about how the undergraduate curriculum works, including information on the amount of student interest, departmental advising, concentration requirements, the "menu" and size of courses, the use of graduate student teaching fellows and the structure of tutorials.

Last year, the committee met with about a dozen concentrations, including the Faculty's largest--like Government and Economics--and others--like Fine Arts, Philosophy and Music--which are burdened with particularly heavy teaching commitments in the Core.

"It's very much `what's going on in our department now'," says Economics Head Tutor J. Bradford Delong '82. "It's not `we need x, y, z to function.'"

Spence says the information, once collected, will be reviewed by the Faculty Council, departments and a new academic policy committee, which the dean is in the process of assembling.

It is in these circles that the decisions will be made about who gets what and how much from the capital drive. Spence, however, will have broad powers to set the money priorities--just as he will bear much of the responsibility for FAS fundraising once it kicks into high gear.

The `Wish List'

At the top of FAS's "wish list," according to Spence, is the expansion of the faculty, a change which he has been lobbying for since early in his University Hall tenure. This could be tied to President Derek C. Bok's efforts to "internationalize" the Harvard curriculum, Pilbeam says.

"I'm already quite clear that the legitimate educational objectives and commitments of the faculty are beyond the capacity of a faculty at this size to meet effectively," says Spence. "We're cutting corners."

Says Pilbeam, "The obvious areas where one puts extra resources as far as undergraduate education is concerned would be more faculty--broadly defined--into course development, into thinking about the use of nonfaculty in teaching...and [into] the advising system."

Increasing the size of the faculty could hold the key to several other initiatives underway in University Hall, administrators say.

In addition to increasing interaction between professors and students, adding faculty could lessen the teaching loads of some graduate students. New Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brendan A. Maher says this could be critical to reversing the decline in the number of Ph.Ds produced by graduate schools.

Adding new faculty positions, depending on how they are allocated, could also increase the ratio of tenured positions to untenured ones, leaving relatively fewer junior faculty members to compete for more tenured spots.

Increasing junior faculty's chances at tenure from within the University has long been Spence's top priority. Three years ago, the dean released a report on junior faculty, the much-touted "Spence plan," which advocated a set of measures designed to produce more junior faculty promotions.