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In a time of increased efforts at centralization, the quasi-independent and often self-generated and self-governed nature of the centers affords them a unique place in the University.
The new policy will push centers to “not just be a faculty bastion, a little enclave away from the University,” he said.
In FAS, decentralization is epitomized by a spate of centers and institutes. Developed across the school in the last 50 years, these hubs, many of them interdisciplinary, are composed of faculty members and affiliates with shared interests and the funds to act on them—distinct from degree-granting...
“The centers are the jewels in the crown,” says Anthropology Professor Arthur M. Kleinman, who heads the Harvard University Asia Center, of the centers’ relationship to the University.
“What we see happening here is a very fundamental shift in the governance, the autonomy of the centers,” said David G. Blackbourn, director of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, to Smith. “What, sir, it seems you are asking...