Harvard Engineering Growth

doi:10.1126/science.306.5698.955b

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Engineering is one discipline likely to get a boost under a planned Harvard University hiring boom. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus intends to expand its faculty dramatically during the next decade, says William Kirby, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. The push stems from a report earlier this year urging the university to improve its faculty-to-student ratio (Science, 7 May, p. 810).

Engineering and applied sciences could grow from around 60 to 100 professors; life, physical, and social sciences also could win increases in a hiring plan that administrators hope to have in place by early next year.