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! ===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. 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