Word: deans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to realize that vision, Allison--who at the age of 36 became Harvard's youngest dean of a graduate school--pursued an agenda dedicated to expanding the school's physical resources and endowment in the hope of attracting--and retaining--the brightest scholars and practitioners in the world of public policy...
...research centers in areas as diverse as poverty, the press and the environment--and executive programs which train everyone from new mayors to national security officers--critics have charged that the expansion has left the school too broad and unfocused. Observers of the school say that the next dean will usher in a long-needed period of consolidation during which the school will have to internalize and digest the hasty growth of the Allison years...
...course of his single-minded drive to build the endowment and cement a reputation for the school, the dean often paid too little heed to ethical concerns, critics...
...Anybody who accomplishes a lot is bound to becontroversial," says Executive Dean Richard E.Cavanagh. "Graham was a creator, and his expansionmoved very quickly--there were bound to be bumpsalong...
...revolving door of the Kennedy Schoolalso received much scrutiny during the dean'stenure, as critics charged that the school hadbecome a place where defeated politicians tookhaven and signed autographs...