GRAHAM ALLISON NAMED AS NEW DEAN

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• Document Release Date: February 3, 2010
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• Publication Date: July 1, 1977
• Content Type: MISC

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Derek C. Bok
is pleased to announce
the appointment of
Graham T. Allison, Jr.
as Dean
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
School of Government
1 July 1977
[NOTES OP SPECIAL INTEREST CAN BE FOUND ABOUT GRAHAM
ALLISON ON PAGES 14-15; AND ON THE PROGRAMMATIC OBJEC-
TIVES OF THE SCHOOL ON PAGES 5-7, IN THE ATTACHED.]
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Graham Allison named as new Dean
At a March 14 dinner for the Visiting Committee of the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, President
Derek C. Bok announced that the Harvard Board of
Overseers had approved his nomination of Graham T.
Allison to become the new Dean of the Kennedy School
of Government, effective July 1, 1977. Elliot L. Richard-
son, Chairman of the Visiting Committee, expressed
enthusiasm about the appointment of Professor Allison
and deep appreciation for Dean Don K. Price's nineteen
years of service to the school.
Professor Allison, 36, is well known in both govern-
ment and academic circles, especially in the foreign af-
fairs community. He has consulted regularly for the
Department of Defense and State over the past decade
and has written frequently for journals such as Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Policy. He is a member of the
Foreign Affairs Task Force of the Democratic Advisory
Committee and served on candidate Carter's Foreign
Policy Task Force and President-Elect Carter's Depart-
ment of Defense transition team. Professor Allison is
currently a consultant to the new Administration, ad-
vising on government reorganization. Allison is a
member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on
Foreign Relations, and the Visiting Committee on
Foreign Policy Studies of The Brookings Institution.
His latest book, Remaking Foreign Policy: The
Organizational Connection (co-authored with Peter
Szanton) has contributed significantly to current policy
discussions in Washington about reorganizing the
government for foreign policy. Professor Allison's
earlier work, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban
Missile Crisis, established him as one of the leading
political scientists of his generation. The book, which
develops alternative and conceptual frameworks for ex-
plaining and predicting government behavior, has
become a standard text in advanced political science
courses. Professor Allison continues to teach a course
on American foreign policy in the Department of
Government at Harvard, of which he is also a member.
With Dean Price of the Kennedy School, Professor
Dean Don K. Price and Dean-designate Graham T. Allison
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Alliso" also teaches a pioneering course in the ethical which will finance inese ainum un- pall-
AA b of the Kenr v School Visiting Committee
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dimensions of public service and the pc _al process.
Professor Allison has served as Assc .ute Dean of the
Kennedy School and Chairman of the Public Policy
Program since 1975. A 1962 magna cum laude graduate
of Harvard College, Professor Allison received his M.A.
degree with First Class Honors from Hertford College,
Oxford University. He received the Ph.D. in Political
Science from Harvard in 1968.
Professor Allison, in accepting the appointment as
Dean of the School of Government, stated that "the new
building for the School gives concrete expression to the
University's commitment for training a new generation
of public service professionals. It will allow us to realize
our aspirations to double enrollment and faculty within
the decade. I hope to help shape a future for the School
in which applied research activities and training pro-
grams for elected and appointed officials expand
significantly to complement our core academic pro-
gram. With President Bok's energetic commitment to
the School, we hope for an early successful completion
of the University's $21 million endowment campaign
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include Elliot L. RicharL n, Ambassador at Large and
Special Representative of the President for the Law of
the Sea Conference, Chairman of the Committee; Mary
E. Proctor, Vice Chairman of the Committee; Lucy
Wilson Benson, Undersecretary of State for Security
Assistance; Robert A. Bernhard; Thornton F. Brad-
shaw; John T. Connor; T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr.; F.
Stanton Deland; Robert R. Douglass; Bernard R. Gif-
ford; David Ginsburg; James F. Henry; Harry Kahn;
The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, United States Sen-
ate; Spiro T. Lastis; Margot C. Lindsay; Peter L. Mal-
kin; Charles A. Meyer; Paul H. O'Neill; Dan Paul; Ros-
well B. Perkins; Catherine H. Powell; George A. Ran-
ny, Jr.; The Honorable Leverett Saltonstall, former U.S.
Senator; Herman Dunlap Smith; Elmer B. Staats; Frank
Stanton; John I. Taylor; Richard Ullman; Frank A.
Weil.
Graham Allison's wife, Elisabeth, a labor economist,
is an Associate Professor in Harvard's Economics
Department.
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