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...fact, while McCue was still dean-designate last year, he helped resolve the School's most prominent problem--the years-long struggle over the direction of the department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) at the GSD--with one swift and dramatic stroke. McCue's boldness surprised many observers, but most believed it to be a logical response to the strife that has surrounded CRP for the past five years. Since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of CRP in 1975, the department has taken an unabashedly nontraditional approach to urban planning. He shook...
...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 to this...
...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 substantially, and a significant number of GSD and public policy students already cross-register...
Even though CRP is moving over to the Kennedy School, this year's first-year students in the department will have the option of receiving their diplomas from the GSD or the Kennedy School. But students admitted to CRP starting next fall will receive Kennedy School degrees. McCue says it's too soon to know whether the absence of an urban planning program at the Design School for the next couple of years will reduce the number of applicants the the GSD. He adds, "My sense is that there will be no problem...
Over the next couple of years, the Design School will develop a new urban planning program, which will include physical planning, regional and natural resources studies and the current Urban Design program, to replace CRP. However, McCue says the GSD will probably not be ready to admit students to the new urban planning program until the fall of 1982. Thus far, the school has had three general faculty meetings to discuss the thrust of the new department. "The object was to get the issues out before us so the faculty could think about them over the summer," McCue says, adding...