"This one is more elaborate in trying to make some programmatic recommendations for the school," Meltzer says of this year's strategic plan.
"The previous plan was at a higher level of generality, and more heavily focused on physical space planning...and on fundraising," he says.
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Professors express hope that this plan represents an overall movement towards more broad reforms and greater flexibility.
"I think it is definitely true that there is more change going on now than has happened in the last 15 or 20 years," Rakoff says.