Yet, despite the overall success of the Campaign, endowed faculty positions continue to lag behind.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences hoped to raise enough money to endow 40 new Faculty chairs, but campaign donors have funded only about half of those posts. At $2.5 million a pop, a named professorship is no small donation.
Still, Knowles remains undaunted.
"I have no doubt that over the coming five years and more we must steadily increase the size of the Faculty," he says.
Students and Faculty who serve on the Committee for Undergraduate Education (CUE) praised Knowles' move.
"This will be beneficial for all students," says Alison F. Egan '01, a CUE student representative and Crimson editor. "It will mean more opportunities for advising and more choices for students to interact with Faculty outside of a purely academic setting.
Egan notes also that increasing the size of the Faculty will give administrators more chances to offer coveted tenured positions to female and minority professors, long a concern of the committee.
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