Harvard Kennedy School Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== [[File:Littauer Center of Public Adminstration, Harvard University - IMG 9016-1.JPG|thumb|The Littauer Center at [[Harvard University]], the original home of Harvard Kennedy School from 1936 to 1978]] [[File:Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Building.jpg|thumb|The new Littauer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, built in 1978, one of several Harvard Kennedy School buildings on the Harvard campus]] [[File:Belfer Center.JPG|thumb|The Belfer Building at Harvard Kennedy School]] ===Founding=== Harvard Kennedy School was founded as the '''Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration''' in 1936 with a $2 million gift (equivalent to roughly $43 million as of 2023) from [[Lucius Littauer]], an 1878 [[Harvard College]] alumnus, businessman, former U.S. Congressman, and the first coach of the [[Harvard Crimson football]] team.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School β History |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/history |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}</ref> Harvard Kennedy School's shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the [[Great Seal of the United States|U.S. shield]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sequence 14248 (Page 283): Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Harvard University Library PDS |url=http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/2573358?n=14248&s=4&printThumbnails=no |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806110332/http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/2573358?n=14248&s=4&printThumbnails=no |archive-date=August 6, 2017 |access-date=January 22, 2016 |website=pds.lib.harvard.edu |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The School drew its initial faculty from Harvard's existing government and economics departments, and welcomed its first students in 1937. The School's original home was in the Littauer Center, north of [[Harvard Yard]], which is now home to [[Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences|Harvard University]]'s Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were called Littauer Fellows, participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career [[Master of Public Administration|Master in Public Administration]] program. <!-- In the late 1950s, a different entity called the "John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government" seems to have existed, alongside the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1958-10-28 |title=U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT β Administrator Resource Site |url=https://adminresource.fas.harvard.edu/files/admin-resource/files/harvard_affiliation_letter.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221127022944/https://adminresource.fas.harvard.edu/files/admin-resource/files/harvard_affiliation_letter.pdf |archive-date=2022-11-26 |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences |page=2}}</ref> What this entity was is unclear. --> In the 1960s, the School began to develop its current public policy degree and course curriculum associated with its Master in Public Policy program. ===Renaming and move=== In 1966, three years following [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|the assassination]] of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] and 1940 [[Harvard College]] alumnus [[John F. Kennedy]], the school was renamed in his honor.{{refn|group=nb|The full name of the upon the change was the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government.<ref name="ap-092066">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113710217/ | title=Harvard School Gets New Name | agency=Associated Press | newspaper=Corpus Christi Caller | date=September 20, 1966 | page=4C | via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> It was subsequently usually referred to as the John F. Kennedy School of Government or, in shorter form, as the Kennedy School of Government.<ref>See for instance the title of, and usages within, the history ''The John F. Kennedy School of Government: The First Fifty Years'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1986).</ref>}} In 1966, concurrent with the school's renaming,<ref name="ap-092066"/> the [[Harvard Institute of Politics]] was created with Neustadt as its founding director.<ref>Kumar, Martha Joynt. "Richard Elliott Neustadt, 1919β2003: a tribute," Presidential Studies Quarterly, March 1, 2004, pg. 1</ref> Harvard Institute of Politics has been housed on the school campus since 1978, and today sponsors and hosts a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. Along with major Harvard Kennedy School events, the Institute of Politics holds the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, named in honor of [[John F. Kennedy Jr.]], in Harvard Kennedy School's Littauer Building.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} By 1978, the faculty, including presidential scholar and adviser [[Richard Neustadt]], a foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School, [[Graham Allison]], [[Richard Zeckhauser]], and others consolidated the school's programs and research centers at the present Harvard Kennedy School campus. The first new building opened on the southern half of the former [[Harvard station#Maintenance facilities|Eliot Shops]] site in October 1978.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=Robert |date=October 15, 1978 |title=Something old, something new, something borrowed |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43833503/the_boston_globe/ |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current campus also features a building called Littauer.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} === Rebranding and campus expansion === In late 2007, the Kennedy School of Government announced that while its official name was not being altered, it was rebranding itself as '''Harvard Kennedy School''' effective Fall 2008.<ref name="patledg-2007">{{cite news | url=https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/education/2007/12/07/kennedy-school-to-rebrand-itself/40168516007/ | title=Kennedy School to rebrand itself | author-first=Edward B. | author-last=Colby | newspaper=The Patriot Ledger | location=Quincy, Massachusetts | date=December 6, 2007 }}</ref> The goal was to make clearer the school's connection with Harvard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kennedy School Web site asks what you can do |url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/12.13/04-ksgweb.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217091343/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/12.13/04-ksgweb.html |archive-date=December 17, 2007 |work=The Harvard University Gazette}}</ref> It was also thought that the new branding would reduce confusion with other entities named after Kennedy, including the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] and the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum|Kennedy Library]] in [[Boston]].<ref name="patledg-2007"/> The rebranding had the support of John F. Kennedy's brother, U.S. Senator [[Edward M. Kennedy]], and [[Caroline Kennedy]], the former president's daughter.<ref name="patledg-2007"/> In 2012, Harvard Kennedy School announced a $500 million fundraising campaign, $120 million of which was to be used to significantly expand the Harvard Kennedy School campus, adding 91,000 square feet of space including six new classrooms, a new kitchen, and dining facility, offices and meeting spaces, a new student lounge and study space, more collaboration and active learning spaces, and a redesigned central courtyard. Groundbreaking commenced on May 7, 2015, and the project was completed in late 2017. The new Harvard Kennedy School campus opened in December 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kennedy School Completes Campus Renovations |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/8/hks-renovations-unveiled/ |access-date=January 9, 2019 |work=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref><ref name="auto1">[https://admissions.hks.harvard.edu/www/documents/HKS%20Campus%20Map%202018.pdf "HKS Campus Map & Directory"], [[HarvΠ°rd]] Kennedy School (Namesakes on the map include [[David Rubenstein]], [[Les Wexner#Jeffrey Epstein association|Leslie Wexner]], [[A. Alfred Taubman#Philanthropy|Alfred Taubman]], [[Lucius Nathan Littauer]], [[Robert A. Belfer]], Batia & [[Idan Ofer]], [[Malcolm H. Wiener]], [[Joan Shorenstein]], etc.)</ref> From 2004 to 2015, Harvard Kennedy School's dean was [[David T. Ellwood]], a [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]] official in the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 1, 2004 |title=Harvard Kennedy School β David Ellwood |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/david-ellwood |access-date=November 4, 2015 |publisher=Harvard Kennedy School}}</ref> In 2015, [[Douglas Elmendorf]], a former director of the U.S. [[Congressional Budget Office]], was named both dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and the school's Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 11, 2015 |title=Elmendorf to lead Kennedy School |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/06/elmendorf-to-lead-kennedy-school/ |access-date=November 4, 2015 |work=Harvard Gazette}}</ref> Elmendorf announced in September 2023 that he would step down as dean at the end of the academic year 2023/2024.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/douglas-elmendorf-to-step-down-as-dean-of-harvard-kennedy-school/#:~:text=D.,engage%20in%20teaching%20and%20research. | title=Douglas Elmendorf to step down as dean of Harvard Kennedy School | date=September 7, 2023 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page