Word: departmentalize
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Vogel added that it is not clear at this point how the programs of the present department will be affected by the creation of a new department. He said that this question, among others, will be considered by the new sociology committee.
Alex A Inkeles professor of Sociology and one of the leaders of the movement for a new department, said that the new committee probably would not try to draft a master plan for reorganization of the entire Soc Rel department. He noted that there is a critical distinction between such...
David Eaglesfield, teaching fellow in Social Relations. was one of two graduate students who attended the sociology wing meeting last week. He said that he expressed reservations at the meeting about the effect of the creation of a new department on graduate programs.
Eaglesfield explained that graduate students in sociology feel their contacts with students and faculty in the other Soc Rel disciplines will be hurt by the establishment of a separate sociology department. He added that "the whole situation is still very unclear."
A poll taken last winter among the graduate students in Social Relations indicated that about 85 per cent of them would be opposed to a split in the department.