Word: programing
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...controversy with the APA ended after Kain supplied the organization with additional information about the department's program. "If they wanted to look at the content of the curriculum, they should have looked at the whole thing and not just the core," Kain says, adding, "But we gave them more information about the coverage of different topics within the core curriculum itself and now they agree that we meet the criteria." Kain argues that the APA believed the department did not meet the teaching staff criteria because it counted a faculty member as a planner only if he held...
Most of the CRP faculty think the move, which will wed the department to the public policy program at the Kennedy School, makes sense. Michael Shapiro, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, says, "As a department, we've been heading in the same direction as the Kennedy School for many years," noting that with growing interest in state and local government issues at the K-School, "it was clear that the two groups were moving closer together." Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the Kennedy School public policy program, says the two programs already overlap...
...getting kicked out. CRP had a much high faculty-to-student component that any other department, and the school needed them to pay for the building. But now they need more space. A lot of students are a bit pissed off." McCue replies, "The decision to move the program was based entirely upon the career interests of the students and the research interests of the faculty...
...first-year students in the department will have the option of receiving their diplomas from the GSD or the Kennedy School. But students admitted to CRP starting next fall will receive Kennedy School degrees. McCue says it's too soon to know whether the absence of an urban planning program at the Design School for the next couple of years will reduce the number of applicants the the GSD. He adds, "My sense is that there will be no problem...
Over the next couple of years, the Design School will develop a new urban planning program, which will include physical planning, regional and natural resources studies and the current Urban Design program, to replace CRP. However, McCue says the GSD will probably not be ready to admit students to the new urban planning program until the fall of 1982. Thus far, the school has had three general faculty meetings to discuss the thrust of the new department. "The object was to get the issues out before us so the faculty could think about them over the summer," McCue says, adding...