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...Dukakis should win," says Carnesale, the K-School's academic dean, "when a little Jeep leaves carrying people to Washington for the Dukakis administration, there will be a lot of professors standing around because they thought there would be a Greyhound...
...reality, there will be much less change [in the K-School] than people think about because there's a huge range of people to draw from," said Olivia A. Golden '76, a lecturer in public policy who worked on the Dukakis gubernatorial campaign. "This [the Kennedy School] is not a primary source of advice for Dukakis...
...such career concerns are typical for a school of government, like Harvard's, which boasts of its hands-on training. Faculty members note that there is a dual effect of such a mission: the K-School becomes the home of politicians who are out of office, and such administrators are apt to be looking for other jobs when the political winds change...
...K-School officials said they feel no unease about having their top faculty members--like Thornburgh--leave the school for Washington. They said it is to the school's advantage to have professors who leave for a few years because their experience can serve to make them better professors when they come back...
This dilemma was evident in last November's revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidlines...