Word: deans
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...recent years, the Kennedy School of Government has been sharply criticized for failing to live up to its original mission of preparing public servants. Despite the school's phenomenal growth in endowment, faculty and degree candidates during the 12-year tenure of outgoing Dean Graham T. Allison '62, many assail the school for failing to kindle that spirit of public service among its student body that it professes to be dedicated...
Nonetheless, the president's recent appointment of Professor of Government Robert D. Putnam--a highly respected political scholar praised for his integrity--as the school's new dean, is a sign that Bok truly wants the Kennedy School, which many regard as his personal legacy, to rededicate itself to its original mission. Putnam has repeatedly said as dean he will be dedicated to "rekindling that spirit of public service." Let's hope the school under its new leadership will come to live up to its true mission...
...Know: In an interview earlier this week, Dean of the Graduate School of Design Gerald M. McCue discussed the lack of minority representation in the school's student and faculty body. McCue says that he is not planning to make any senior appointments to the 17-member tenured faculty. But, he says, "At all levels there is consciousness of the University's Affirmative Action program." He adds that a committee formed this year to examine what can be done to improve the situation is finding "more positive results...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57's master plan to randomize the House system next year is also ripe for the eye-for-an-eye approach. Why not randomize University-affiliated housing also? Would Dean Jewett appreciate being told where he will live in September...
Theodore Sizer, former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, told the audience of 125 that the United States should use a "common sense" approach to outdo Japan in education...