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...days of student demonstrations and letters from alumni threatening to cease support of the school have followed Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr.'s announcement last week that he would reduce the SOM's faculty in organizational behavior and eliminate its doctoral program in the field...
...same October 26 announcement, Schmidt named a new SOM dean and shifted the school's operations research faculty to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...sounds corny to say it but most people really love SOM," said second-year student Thomas Amenta. "[The change] is an insult to our vision of management." Nationally, Yale's 12-year-old equivalent to business school is known as much for its experimental emphasis on behavior as its private business curriculum...
...They're trying to make SOM more like conventional business schools," said first-year student Amena Ali. "We have an open, innovative approach to management. I don't know what kind of signals we're sending out by changing...
...Monday, about 300 SOM students did not attend classes and participated in a day-long rally. Ali said that about 80 percent of the 360-member student population is "unhappy to furious" with the changes...