Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to let you know that - after eleven very rewarding years as Dean - I have decided to return to the Faculty at the end of the current academic year. As we enter the era of President Summers' leadership, and even as I find so many of my hopes for the Faculty to be closely consonant with his, I shall return to a somewhat less pressured life, and fulfill my long-held view that we should overlap by just a year.

Let me say what I trust is obvious to you all, that I am truly grateful for the privilege of having served the most creative and committed faculty anywhere, for the pleasure of real friendship with colleagues and with staff, students and alumni/ae, and for the knowledge that Larry - with my successor in University Hall - will in the years ahead shape an exciting future for the Faculty, and for Harvard.

With my sincere thanks and best wishes,

Yours ever,
Jeremy Knowles