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Kain dismisses the criticisms of CRP. "Our graduates find very few employers who criticize us for being too quantitiative," he says, adding that "it's pretty hard to find a CRP department which doesn't do a lot of economics...
Despite Kain's assertions, the American Planning Association (APA) last spring delayed renewal of its recognition of CRP because its reviewing committee thought the department did not have enough professional planners on its faculty and its core curriculum was not sufficiently "planning-oriented...
...different topics within the core curriculum itself and now they agree that we meet the criteria." Kain argues that the APA believed the department did not meet the teaching staff criteria because it counted a faculty member as a planner only if he held a planning degree while CRP considers some of its members as planners because they have substantial experience in the field. Last fall, the APA came around to Kain's position and renewed its recognition of the department...
With the re-recognition of the department secured last October. the fireworks in Gund Hall seemed to subside a bit. But in the end of November, President Bok recommended the transfer of CRP to the Kennedy School of Government after consulting with Kain, McCue, and Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the K-School, Harry Lirtzman, a first-year student at the GSD, expressed a reaction shared by most, saying "With the appointment of McCue as the new dean, we thought there might be substantial changes in City and Regional Planning but we never thought it would have come...
Most of the CRP faculty think the move, which will wed the department to the public policy program at the Kennedy School, makes sense. Michael Shapiro, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, says, "As a department, we've been heading in the same direction as the Kennedy School for many years," noting that with growing interest in state and local government issues at the K-School, "it was clear that the two groups were moving closer together." Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the Kennedy School public policy program, says the two programs already overlap...