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In FAS, decentralization is epitomized by a spate of centers and institutes. Developed across the school in the last 50 years, these hubs, many of them interdisciplinary, are composed of faculty members and affiliates with shared interests and the funds to act on them—distinct from degree-granting...
Harvard’s traditional “bottom-up” structure—in which the “very, very best ideas” are produced by the Faculty and gain broader administrative support—is the source of the University’s ?...
“The centers are the jewels in the crown,” says Anthropology Professor Arthur M. Kleinman, who heads the Harvard University Asia Center, of the centers’ relationship to the University.
“We have faculty who are very entrepreneurial, who are incredibly imaginative and effective in doing things, and the University has always encouraged that,” Kleinman adds. “We don’t want to see that change.”
“What we see happening here is a very fundamental shift in the governance, the autonomy of the centers,” said David G. Blackbourn, director of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, to Smith. “What, sir, it seems you are asking...