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! == Controversies == Under Dean Elmendorf, the school has tried to focus its engagement across the political spectrum, which has caused controversy at times. The school came under criticism for offering a fellowship to [[Chelsea Manning]] on September 13, 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stack |first=Liam |date=2017-09-13 |title=Sean Spicer and Chelsea Manning Join Harvard as Visiting Fellows |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/spicer-manning-harvard.html |access-date=2020-03-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":0a">{{Cite news |last=Seelye |first=Katharine Q. |date=2017-09-15 |title=With Chelsea Manning Invitation, Harvard Got a Discussion It Didn't Want |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/us/chelsea-manning-harvard.html |access-date=2020-03-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It then publicly rescinded the offer on September 15, 2017, after [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] director [[Mike Pompeo]] canceled a speaking engagement at Harvard and sent a letter condemning the university for awarding the fellowship.<ref name=":0a" /><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Haag |first1=Matthew |last2=Bromwich |first2=Jonah Engel |date=2017-09-14 |title=Harvard Disinvites Chelsea Manning, and the Feeling Is Mutual |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/us/chelsea-manning-harvard-fellow-cia.html |access-date=2020-03-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A 2021 investigative report by student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard found that many of the centers' climate initiatives were funded in part by [[fossil fuel]] companies, and that some of the centers had allegedly taken several steps to cover up that fact.<ref>{{Citation|last=Hudson|first=Marc|title=Enacted Inertia: Australian Fossil Fuel Incumbents' Strategies to Undermine Challengers|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28076-5_8|work=The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions|year=2020|pages=195β222|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-28076-5_8|isbn=978-3-030-28075-8|s2cid=211786959|access-date=2021-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard|title=Beyond the Endowment|url=http://www.divestharvard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BeyondTheEndowmentFFDH.pdf}}</ref> The Kennedy School's [[Carr Center for Human Rights Policy]] in 2022 invited [[Kenneth Roth]], former executive director of [[Human Rights Watch]], a leading global [[human rights]] organizations, to join it as a senior fellow. The Kennedy School eventually rescinded the invitation to Roth because Human Rights Watch had investigated the [[State of Israel]]'s treatment of [[Palestinian]]s and concluded in 2021 that it meets the threshold for the "[[crime of apartheid]]".<ref>The Nation, 5 Jan. 2023 [https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hrw-harvard-israel-kennedy-school/"Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard: Kenneth Roth, Who Ran Human Rights Watch for 29 Years, Was Denied a Fellowship at The Kennedy School. The Reason? Israel"]</ref> After condemnation by faculty, students, The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] and others, the dean of the school reversed this decision.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGreal |first1=Chris |title=Harvard reverses decision on role for Israel critic after outcry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jan/19/harvard-kenneth-roth-fellowship-israel-criticism |access-date=13 February 2023 |work=The Guardian|date=20 Jan 2023}}</ref> {{Wide image|Harvard University Skyline 2.png|900px|3=<div align=center>[[John W. Weeks Footbridge|Weeks Footbridge]] crossing the [[Charles River]] at sunset with [[Harvard Business School]] on the left and Harvard Kennedy School on the right</div>|dir=rtl}} 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