The impression in my department is that the new school will be very expensive. Private resources are our target. No one is aiming at other parts of the College pie. Outside funding is crucial for any sort of proposal of this nature. The Vinson Institute is more practitioner oriented.
International education is important for the new school.
The Institute is less well established for international programs. The University will have the Vinson Institute, the Rusk Center, the School of Public and International Affairs, but no Political Science. Political Science will be a department in the new school. If you're good, you're good. Structures may have little to do with it.