Universities with Mixed Models

A lot of these institutions have a "department-center-program" model which blends the "matrix" or orthogonal model with a vertical model. Departments are vertical, while programs and centers are orthogonal; some of the programs and centers draw upon departmental faculty to make the entire structure work. This is a snapshot.
One thing that should stand out from all of these organizations, except for the Thayer School of Engineering, is that the COLA equivalents tend to have Departments that focus on one area with subdivisions, schools that are broad and have interdisciplinary "programs" that share faculty but are still degree granting units at graduate and undergraduate levels, and programs are typically used to designate an academic unit comprised of faculty across disciplines organized along a single theme.

Chairs/Directors still exist at many of these institutions and perform similar functions. Rice has the biggest structural blend, followed by KU and Purdue. Stanford was selected because of its size, and Dartmouth because the Chancellor suggested it.

To note, most, if not all, of these institutions have programs in WGSS and Africana-Studies (coincidentally) and are organized around research centers. SIU has research centers in the humanities, however, the units where the centers reside are not organized around the centers in the same way as these other institutions. This is common across units. I have attached a text from the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering that outlines the matrix or orthogonal structures at STEM institutions. Chapter 9 is the most relevant to our interests.

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