There's lot of posturing by Tulane to create the image that we are a much more important university that we are, but I figure that's normal among colleges in this range. By "this range" I mean good colleges that aren't quite elite, yet desperately want to be.
Nothing more is evidence of this than the amount of "Institutes" or "Centers" or "Offices" here at Tulane. I run into them via my job, and I swear, any Adjunct Professor has some interest in say, anxiety research and boom, we have the "Tulane Institute for Anxiety and Neurological Disorders." Or something like that. There's a ton of them at this school, and I would like to know how many of them have more than say 2 people working at them at a time. If it's a temporary research, you don't need this fancy name. If it's a project from 1 or 2 professors, it doesn't need a title. I don't know why it annoys me, but it does.
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I understand. I think this is all too common. Every law & mpa professor has several titles relating to various chairs, institutes, and centers. Here are three examples of great professors I genuinely like:
1. Lauren Robel, the Dean and Val Nolan Professor of Law.
2. Dan Conkle, the Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies.
3. Fred Cate, Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research.
Google "Tulane Center" or "Tulane Institute" and you'll get the idea.
Case in point- TULANE UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH
http://tulane.edu/socialwork/centers/institute-for-psychosocial-health.cfm
The Tulane University Institute for Psychosocial Health is a dynamic research, education, training and advocacy organization designed to...
A dynamic organization that appears to consist of one professor and probably a few grad students.
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