Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the fact that many view Putnam's selection as a signal from Bok that the school must consolidate its curriculum, most Kennedy School professors insist that the recent review was not prompted by the external criticisms...
...Kennedy School was perceived during the campaign," says Baker Professor of Public Management Herman "Dutch" Leonard, who chaired the review's coordinating committee. "It was just time for the school to sit back and ask ourselves what the mission of the school was and if our curriculum was doing that...
During the past 12 years, the school has pursued a course of explosive growth under outgoing Dean Graham T. Allison '62, which many have said left the curriculum unfocused and for too long a time ignored. The current review is the first conducted at the school since the curriculum was implemented 20 years...
Whether or not the school's review is a reaction to external or internal criticism--or both--the debate it has sparked over the extent to which quantitative approaches should continue to dominate the school's curriculum promises to reshape the school under Putnam...
While Allison played a relatively insignificant part in the review--leaving the process in the hands of faculty and students--professors say they expect Putnam will play a larger role in determining the future direction of the curriculum review. The next stage, they say, will include the actual development of courses in ethics and politics...