Co-signed by 13 SEAS faculty members and administrators, including the School’s dean, Cherry A. Murray, the draft report was circulated to both University President Drew G. Faust and Provost Alan E. Garber ’76, according to Paul Karoff, the School’s communications director and a co-signatory. Karoff characterized the response to the paper as very positive.
“[The draft] does a nice job of encapsulating the aspirations of faculty and staff,” Karoff said. Lewis said that faculty members have also reacted positively to the paper’s proposals.
Many faculty members were taken aback by news of the move to Allston when it was announced at a Faculty meeting in February 2013. At the time, the decision was characterized as the “Allston Bomb” by many SEAS faculty members. Garber subsequently created three task forces to examine issues related to the move.
—Staff writers Dev A. Patel and Steve R. Watros contributed to the reporting of this story.
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