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When Santa Anna became the President of Mexico in 1833, he intentionally began to centralize and departmentalize the Mexican government.

As of July 1, 2008 the College will departmentalize, housing the School of Architecture and the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning.

Dr. Weaver attributes part of the success to Nassau's being the first elementary school in the state to departmentalize its teaching staff, which means teachers teach the subjects that interest them and children change classrooms.

In 1993, the issue was heightened further when the UCLA administration issued a statement refusing to departmentalize the Chicana/o Studies Department on the eve of Cesar Chavez's funeral.

Having discovered how much some special interests love the recognition of a seat at the Cabinet table, some members are eager to departmentalize others, like the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.