All of the Review’s initial questions about the new Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management are still unanswered, according to this recent Sun article. At the moment, it appears as though the only definite change is the new name:
The name is something that administrators say they hope to build, develop and brand, though they say it is already well-respected in the business world. Dyson helped organize the International Monetary Fund and co-founded Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp., which became one of the largest privately-held companies in the U.S..
The administrators quoted in the article are hopeful that serious planning will start once professors and students converge on campus in the fall, but I’m skeptical that we’ll see an “8th school”– if that’s what the ultimate goal is–until 2012 at the very earliest.
This planning will also invariably take time and energy away from the academic work of the AEM and CALS faculty. Why couldn’t this announcement have been made earlier in the year, so that the relevant administrators and professors could have adjusted their summer plans and at least started to work on this reorganization project over the summer?
