"develop department" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used in business contexts when discussing strategies to expand a department or organization. For example: "The manager outlined plans to develop the department in order to reach new markets."
For his part, Weed was grateful: "May I tell you of the great appreciation which we feel toward this renewal of the grant in support of our developing department of neurology.
Only after Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 was the organization pressed into a broader role as a conventional military force; at the same time, the Pāsdārān which answered to its own independent ministry sought to broaden its scope by developing departments for intelligence gathering (both at home and abroad) and clandestine activities.
For example, newly developing departments of family medicine must be imbedded within the overall hospital and university systems and will require their "buy-in" [ 23].
He's also willing to go right around Washington, and develop close department-to-department relationships with security services around the globe, which is a big part of what makes the N.Y.P.D.'s counterterrorism work so sophisticated.
From then until his move to the University of Texas in 1981, he helped develop the department's widely respected programs and founded and directed a reproduction research center.
There were no plans to develop parks department gardens, he said, but he noted that community gardens were always considered temporary.
An online reporting tool was still being developed, the department said.
In 1973, Graham joined the developing English department at Hatfield Polytechnic (now the University of Hertfordshire), where he taught for 27 years.
Philip developed this department according to his own ideas of what the study of archaeology should involve, rather than following any blueprint for an academic discipline.
