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...Mary Jo Bane, a former Clinton administration official who has been at the Kennedy School of Government for most of the past 25 years, will replace controversial professor Stephen M. Walt as the school’s Academic Dean, effective July...
David T. Ellwood, the dean of the Kennedy School, said he picked Bane, who is the Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, because in addition to being an “effective manager,” she can combine practicality with academics...
...academic dean, Bane will become “the chief academic officer” overseeing curriculum, quality of teaching, and faculty assignment. Specifically, Bane will join the ongoing effort to sharpen the Kennedy School’s curriculum. Ellwood said he hopes to create more “signature” courses studying, for example, the areas of decision-making...
Ellwood and Bane have known each other for a long time, having served together during the Clinton administration, when Bane was assistant secretary for children and families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
...student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest-level female faculty member in the school’s history. Admirable as these moves are, they can only be first steps. Even with the hiring of Mary Jo Bane, the school still will have no tenured women or minorities. And this year’s graduating class from its Master of Public Policy program boasts only two minorities among its 60 students. Those are startling statistics about an institution that aims to staff government posts that themselves increasingly deal with affirmative action...