Word: divisionism
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“Engineering was never a department,” he explained in an interview last spring. “It was sometimes viewed as a department because FAS is very large, but it was always a very special division with always its own dean...There’s...
Although Harvard founded a new Engineering School in 1918, it eventually became dedicated to graduate study, and when its faculty were merged with undergraduate personnel between 1946 and 1949, the program became the Division of Engineering Sciences. And despite a series of name changes, it remained this way into the...
In 2005, about six years after he arrived at Harvard, Venky decided that the best way for the division to grow was to change its status and become a separate school.
“I came to the conclusion about two years ago...that the division needs to take the next logical step and be designated a Harvard school for several reasons,” he said. “First, internally to be a sign that Harvard had once again...
"Sarkozy has to be very careful about creating these fronts of opposition where they wouldn't have existed otherwise, because the composite effects will really undermine his authority," says Dominique Reynié, an author and professor at Paris' Foundation of Political Sciences. Reynié notes that municipal elections set for...