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! ===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}} 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