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There have always been critics who said that the school was growing too much and too fast. This year, some think their suspicions have been confirmed. Long before President Bok last year ordered the Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program to absorb the GSD City and Regional Planning (CRP) program, Graham T Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, argued that an expanded home was necessary. Now it's urgent...
Everyone agrees that the stalled construction does not signal a public policy Armageddon, but several professors, especially those dealing with the merger of the MPP and the CRP, are worried about how the school will house the students and faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...
...minorities among its 22 tenured professors last term. They noted that among junior faculty--associate and assistant professors--it sported but one female assistant professor (on leave this term) and no minorities. They pointed out that this year's graduating class from the school's Master of Public Policy (MPP) program, its premier graduate school program, features two minorities among its 60 students...
...MPP committee's student membership was "discontinued" two years ago because of students' "big burdens of work," Jackson said, explaining that committee membership "means a lot of Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons devoted to reading files. It's a lot of work...
Albert L. Nichols, current chairman of the MPP committee, and a student member of the committee in 1975-76, said yesterday he has "no objections" to student membership, but noted that students "may have an exaggerated notion of the difference between student and faculty perspectives...