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...Allison says he stayed on to complete a 12-year tenure at the insistence of President Derek C. Bok, who wanted him to see the Kennedy School through its first stage of development. Allison says the goal was to create a graduate school dedicated to excellence in government that would be as influential as Harvard's other prominent professional schools...
...accomplishment of which I am proud is the opportunity to have realized a vision," Allison says. "I feel very grateful for having had the opportunity to dream a dream, develop a strategy for trying to achieve it, working with an extraordinary group of people and ultimately to have seen the dream largely realized...
...trying to realize that vision, Allison--who at the age of 36 became Harvard's youngest dean of a graduate school--pursued an agenda dedicated to expanding the school's physical resources and endowment in the hope of attracting--and retaining--the brightest scholars and practitioners in the world of public policy...
...security officers--critics have charged that the expansion has left the school too broad and unfocused. Observers of the school say that the next dean will usher in a long-needed period of consolidation during which the school will have to internalize and digest the hasty growth of the Allison years...
...Allison was rebuked by the nationalpress and members of the University's faculty forawarding a medal of "distinguished public service"to Attorney General Edwin Meese...