> new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.<p>> [...]<p>> The school said it already began searches for new faculty members with joint positions in both the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the departments of Economics, Political Science, and School for International and Public Affairs to “contribute to a robust and intellectually diverse academic environment, reinforcing the University’s commitment to excellence and fairness in Middle East studies.”<p>Does anyone have a diagram of these departments now and before? Center for Palestine studies, the first one in the US, now under one senior vice provost also covering the rest of MESAAS (which I think they were already part of before), but the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies doesn't go under that provost and is part of an interdisciplinary Faculty of Arts and Sciences? What's actually changing there, MESAAS didn't have something like the vice provost before?<p>Is it put into arts instead of the Department of Religion because Judaism is unique in that it represents both a religion and an ethnoreligious group but I guess would still go under Department of Religion, but Israel and Jewish studies would be a political and ethnic group, wouldn't that fit more naturally under MESAAS instead of Arts and Sciences?