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! === 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"], [[Harvаrd]] 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 – 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