Yesterday, Spectator spent some time with Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences Nicholas Dirks, who is also dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has held both positions since 2004 and has taught anthropology at Columbia since 1997.
Here are some highlights from the interview:
- A space crunch continues to plague the Arts and Sciences, although Bollinger has promised that Uris Hall will go to A&S once the business school moves to Manhattanville. Dirks said that Uris will solve many of the problems, although the B-School's move to M'ville is still at least four years away:
“We could start populating Uris right now. We are really at the end of knowing what we can do. Some departments don’t have enough space for new faculty, and we have some units in the Arts and Sciences that are really, really pressed for space. The School of the Arts is having trouble finding offices for some of the most distinguished faculty that we have recruited."
