The literature department was formed nearly four years ago through a merger of the undergraduate concentration in literature and the graduate program in comparative literature.

In October, faculty members discussed changing the name of the Extension School to the “Harvard School of Continuing and Professional Studies.” The faculty held off on voting, and did not discuss it at the following meeting in December. No official mention of the name change has been made since.

DIGITAL ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP

At the Faculty meeting, Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication Stuart M. Shieber encouraged the faculty to continue uploading their work to the repository site Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, which provides open access to faculty research papers.

Since the repository’s unveiling early in the fall, users have downloaded over 70,000 articles from nearly one-third of the FAS faculty, according to Shieber.

—Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu

—Staff writer Elyssa A.L. Spitzer can be reached at spitzer@fas.harvard.edu.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: February 3, 2010

An earlier version of the Feb. 3 news article "Though FAS Slims Down Budget, Work Lies Ahead" stated that the Faculty voted to change the name of the Department of Comparative Literature into the Department of Literature and Comparative Literature. In fact, the original name of the department was Department of Literature and Comparative Literature, and it will now be called the Department of Comparative Literature.