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...Outgoing Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, on the presidential election last November that saw President Bush defeat former K-School lecturer Michael S. Dukakis...
...while Allison's fundraising ability was greatly needed to increase the school's stature in the late 1970's, in recent years Allison's ethics and his academic leadership have been increasingly questioned...
...Allison offered a medal for "distinguished public service" to then-Attorney General Edwin Meese in order to induce the cabinet member to speak at the Kennedy School. The move was sharply criticized in all quarters of the University...
Last year it was revealed that Allison had offered a Texas couple "officer of the University" status in exchange for a $500,000 donation. When the gift was made public and its ethical standard questioned, Allison admitted that such practices do not "meet my own standards or the standards of the University...
Others question Allison's commitment to hiring minority and women faculty members. Though Allison says appointing a minority or woman faculty member will be one of his top priorities before he leaves in July, there are currently only one woman and one minority member who have received tenure, though the school has greatly increased the size of its faculty...