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{{Short description|Public policy school of Harvard University}}

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| endowment = $1.7 billion (2021)As of 2021. {{Cite web |title=2019 Harvard financial report |url=https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy21_harvard_financial_report.pdf}}

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The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly referred to as Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), is the school of public policy of Harvard University, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard Kennedy School offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and international development, four doctoral degrees, and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, international affairs, and economics. {{As of|2021|post=,}} HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion.{{Cite web|url=https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy19_harvard_financial_report.pdf|title=2019 Harvard financial report}} It is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs.{{Cite web |title=Member Directory |url=https://apsia.org/graduate-schools-programs/member-directory/ |access-date=29 March 2020 |website=Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs|date=March 11, 2016 }}

The primary campus of Harvard Kennedy School is on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge. The main buildings overlook the Charles River and are southwest of Harvard Yard and Harvard Square, on the site of a former MBTA Red Line trainyard. The School is adjacent to the public riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.

Harvard Kennedy School alumni include 21 heads of state or government from around the world. Alumni also include cabinet officials, military leaders, heads of central banks, and legislators.

History

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=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.{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School – History |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/history |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}

Harvard Kennedy School's shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the U.S. shield.{{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}} 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 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 in Public Administration program.{{Cite web |title=Littauer School Serves as Center for Social Sciences {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1940/3/18/littauer-school-serves-as-center-for/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=www.thecrimson.com}} 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 the assassination of 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.{{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}} It was subsequently usually referred to as the John F. Kennedy School of Government or, in shorter form, as the Kennedy School of Government.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).}}

In 1966, concurrent with the school's renaming, the Harvard Institute of Politics was created with Neustadt as its founding director.Kumar, Martha Joynt. "Richard Elliott Neustadt, 1919–2003: a tribute," Presidential Studies Quarterly, March 1, 2004, pg. 1 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 Eliot Shops site in October 1978.{{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}} 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.{{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 }} The goal was to make clearer the school's connection with Harvard.{{Cite web |title=Kennedy School Web site asks what you can do |author-first1=Doug|author-last1=Gavel|date=13 December 2007|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}} It was also thought that the new branding would reduce confusion with other entities named after Kennedy, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the Kennedy Library in Boston. 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.

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.{{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|author-first1=Lucas|author-last1=Ward|date=8 December 2017}}[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, Leslie Wexner, Alfred Taubman, Lucius Nathan Littauer, Robert A. Belfer, Batia & Idan Ofer, Malcolm H. Wiener, Joan Shorenstein, etc.)

From 2004 to 2015, Harvard Kennedy School's dean was David T. Ellwood, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official in the Clinton administration.{{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}}

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.{{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}} Elmendorf announced in September 2023 that he would step down as dean at the end of the academic year 2023/2024.{{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 }}.

Jeremy M. Weinstein was named dean effective July 1, 2024.{{cite web | url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/30/jeremy-weinstein-harvard-kennedy-school-dean/ | title=Jeremy Weinstein Will Serve as Next Harvard Kennedy School Dean, Garber Confirms | date=April 30, 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/jeremy-m-weinstein-named-dean-of-harvard-kennedy-school/ | title=Jeremy M. Weinstein named dean of Harvard Kennedy School | date=April 29, 2024}} Jeremy was a political scientist at Stanford University who previously served as chief of staff to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,

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Academics

= Degrees =

Harvard Kennedy School offers four master's degree programs.{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School – Office of Admissions |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/admissions/overview |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}} The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) program focuses on policy analysis, economics, management, ethics, statistics and negotiations in the public sector.{{Cite web |title=Master in Public Policy {{!}} Harvard Kennedy School |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/education/masters-programs/master-public-policy |access-date=October 2, 2017 |website=www.hks.harvard.edu |language=en}} There are three separate Master in Public Administration (MPA) programs: a one-year Mid-Career Program (MC/MPA) intended for professionals who are more than seven years removed from their college graduation; a two-year MPA program intended for professionals who have an additional graduate degree and are more recently out of school; and a two-year international development track (MPA/ID) focused on development studies with a strong emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis.

Members of the mid-career MPA class also include Mason Fellows, who are public and private executives from developing countries. Mason Fellows typically constitute about 50 percent of the incoming class of Mid-Career MPA candidates. The Mason cohort is the most diverse at Harvard in terms of nationalities and ethnicities represented. It is named after Edward Sagendorph Mason, the former Harvard professor who, from 1947 to 1958, was dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as Harvard Kennedy School.

In addition to the master's programs, Harvard Kennedy School administers three doctoral programs.{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School – Doctoral Programs|url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/educational-programs/doctoral-programs |access-date=March 24, 2023 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}} Ph.D. degrees are awarded in public policy, in social policy in conjunction with Harvard's departments of government and sociology, and in health policy in conjunction with FAS and the Harvard School of Public Health.

== Joint and concurrent degrees ==

Harvard Kennedy School has a number of joint and concurrent degree programs within Harvard and with other leading universities, which allow students to receive multiple degrees in a reduced period of time. Joint and current students spend at least one year in residence in Cambridge taking courses. Harvard Kennedy School joint degree programs are run with Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Graduate School of Design, and concurrent programs are offered with Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Medical School.

Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other law, business, and medical schools, including the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, New York University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Yale Law School, and UCSF School of Medicine.{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School – Joint & Concurrent Degrees |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/degrees/masters/joint-degrees |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}

Abroad, Harvard Kennedy School offers a dual degree with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.{{Cite web |title=Dual Master with Harvard Kennedy School {{!}} IHEID |url=https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/HKS-dual-master |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=www.graduateinstitute.ch}}{{Cite web |title=Dual Degree |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/educational-programs/masters-programs/joint-concurrent-degrees/dual-degree |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=www.hks.harvard.edu |language=en}}

= HKS courses =

Harvard Kennedy School maintains six academic divisions each headed by a faculty chair. In addition to offerings in the Harvard Kennedy School course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard and at MIT Sloan School of Management, Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. MPP coursework is focused on one of five areas, called a Policy Area of Concentration (PAC),{{cite web | url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/educational-programs/masters-programs/master-public-policy/curriculum | title=Curriculum }} and includes a year-long research seminar in their second year, which includes a master's thesis called a Policy Analysis Exercise.{{Cite web |title=HKS Course Listing |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/degrees/teaching-and-courses/courses |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}{{cite web | url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/educational-programs/masters-programs/master-public-policy/curriculum/policy-analysis-exercise | title=Policy Analysis Exercise }}

= International collaboration =

The university is an active member of the University of the Arctic.{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.uarctic.org/members/member-profiles/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic |language=en-US}} UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.uarctic.org/about-us/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic - University of the Arctic |language=en-US}}

Rankings

Harvard Kennedy School has routinely ranked as the best, or among the best, of the world's public policy graduate schools. U.S. News & World Report ranks it the best graduate school for social policy, the best for health policy, and second best for public policy analysis.{{Cite web |title=U.S. News and World Report re-issues grad school rankings – The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan |url=http://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2015/us-news-and-world-report-re-issues-grad-school-rankings |website=fordschool.umich.edu}} In 2015 rankings, Kennedy School is ranked first in the subcategory of health policy and second in the category of public policy analysis and social policy.{{Cite web |title=Harvard University | Best Public Affairs School | US News |url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-public-affairs-schools/harvard-university-166027 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402213222/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-public-affairs-schools/harvard-university-166027 |archive-date=April 2, 2016 |access-date=2016-05-04 |df=mdy-all}}{{Cite web |title=Rankings – Public Affairs – Graduate Schools – Education – US News |url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-public-affairs-schools/rankings |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101052808/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-public-affairs-schools/rankings/ |archive-date=January 1, 2011 |access-date=2011-05-25 |df=mdy-all}}

Kennedy's School's foreign affairs programs have consistently ranked at the top or near the top of Foreign Policy magazine's Inside the Ivory Tower survey, which lists the world's top twenty academic international relations programs at the undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. levels.{{Cite news |last=Avey |display-authors=etal |date=Jan–Feb 2012 |title=Ivory Tower |work=Foreign Policy |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/ivory_tower |access-date=February 6, 2012}} In 2012, for example, the survey ranked Kennedy School first overall for doctoral and undergraduate programs and third overall in the Master's category.{{Cite web |title=TRIP Around the World: Teaching, Research, and Policy Views of International Relations Faculty in 20 Countries |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/ivory_tower |access-date=February 6, 2012 |website=Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations |publisher=College of William & Mary}}

Student organizations

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Harvard Kennedy School maintains a range of student activities, including interest-driven student caucuses, Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG, student-edited policy journals, including Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, Kennedy School Review,{{Cite web |title=Kennedy School Review |url=http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/ |website=Kennedy School Review}} the Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy,{{Cite web |title=Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy |url=http://hksjmepp.com |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150418164704/http://hksjmepp.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 18, 2015 |website=Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy}} a student newspaper, The Citizen, and a number of student athletic groups.

Students can join the Harvard Graduate Council, which is the centralized student government for the twelve graduate and professional schools of Harvard University. The Harvard Graduate Council is responsible for advocating student concerns to central administrators, including the president of Harvard University, provost, deans of students, and deans for the nearly 15,000 graduate and professional students across the twelve schools, organizing large university-wide initiatives and events, administering and providing funding for university-wide student groups,{{Cite web |title=USG « Harvard Graduate Student Government |url=http://hgc.harvard.edu/usg/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hgc.harvard.edu}}{{Cite web |last=Khanna |first=Saira |title=University-Wide Groups Approved | News | The Harvard Crimson |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/13/harvard-student-universitywide-groups/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=The Crimson}} and representing the Harvard graduate student population to other universities and external organizations.{{Cite web |title=Harvard at a Glance | Harvard University |url=http://www.harvard.edu/harvard-glance |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Harvard.edu |archive-date=June 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629093652/http://www.harvard.edu/harvard-glance |url-status=dead }} Harvard Graduate Council is known for spearheading the "One Harvard" movement, which aims to bring all of Harvard's graduate schools together through closer collaboration and social interaction.{{Cite web |title=There's only one Harvard |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/first-youre-harvard/ |access-date=11 November 2016 |website=harvard.edu|date=September 10, 2013 }}

Centers

Harvard Kennedy School is home to 14 centers, including:{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School – Centers |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers-programs/centers |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}

  • Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation{{Cite web |title=Harvard – Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation |url=https://ash.harvard.edu/ |access-date=May 25, 2023 |publisher=Ash.harvard.edu}}
  • Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs{{Cite web |title=Harvard – Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Belfercenter.org}}
  • Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University{{Cite web |date=2023-03-21 |title=Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University |url=https://cities.harvard.edu/ |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=Bloomberg Center for Cities |language=en-US}}
  • Carr Center for Human Rights Policy{{Cite web |title=Carr Center for Human Rights Policy | John F. Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University |url=http://hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606135047/http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/ |archive-date=June 6, 2012 |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu |df=mdy-all}}
  • Center for International Development{{Cite web |last=Harvard Kennedy School |title=Harvard Kennedy School – Center for International Development |url=http://cid.harvard.edu}}
  • Center for Public Leadership{{Cite web |title=Center for Public Leadership – Harvard Kennedy School |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/leadership |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926155627/http://www.hks.harvard.edu/leadership/ |archive-date=September 26, 2010 |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}
  • Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics{{Cite web |title=Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics : Home |url=http://ethics.harvard.edu |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Ethics.harvard.edu}}
  • Institute of Politics{{Cite web |date=April 29, 2014 |title=Harvard University Institute of Politics |url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Iop.harvard.edu}}
  • Joint Center for Housing Studies{{Cite web |title=Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies – Home Page |url=http://www.jchs.harvard.edu |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Jchs.harvard.edu}}
  • Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy{{Cite web |date=June 17, 2014 |title=Shorenstein Center home page |url=http://shorensteincenter.org |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Shorensteincenter.org}}
  • Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government{{Cite web |title=Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government |url=http://hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}
  • Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston{{Cite web |title=Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/rappaport/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}
  • Taubman Center for State and Local Government{{Cite web |date=April 3, 2014 |title=The Taubman Center |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/taubmancenter/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}
  • Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy{{Cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School – Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/socpol/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}
  • Women and Public Policy Program{{Cite web |title=Women and Public Policy Program |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/wappp/ |access-date=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Hks.harvard.edu}}

The majority of centers offer research and academic fellowships through which fellows can engage in research projects, lead study groups into specific topics and share their experiences with industry and government with the student body.

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.{{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}}{{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}} It then publicly rescinded the offer on September 15, 2017, after CIA director Mike Pompeo canceled a speaking engagement at Harvard and sent a letter condemning the university for awarding the fellowship.{{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}}

An investigative report in 2021 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.{{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=195–222|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}}{{Cite web|last=Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard|title=Beyond the Endowment|url=http://www.divestharvard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BeyondTheEndowmentFFDH.pdf}}

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's 2021 investigation of Israel's treatment of Palestinians concluded that it met the threshold for the "crime of apartheid".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"] After condemnation by faculty, students, the American Civil Liberties Union and others, the dean of the school reversed this decision.{{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}}

Awards

The Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service is awarded to "a graduating student whose commitment, activities, and contributions to public service are extraordinary". Several other awards are also awarded on Class Day annually at the end of May.{{cite web | title=Class Day Awards | website=Harvard Kennedy School | url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/events/honoring-class-2020/class-day-awards |date= May 2020| access-date=13 August 2022}}

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Harvard Kennedy School has over 63,000 alumni, many of whom have gone on to notable careers around the world in government, business, public policy, and other fields. Its alumni include 20 heads of state and dozens of leaders of government department and agencies, non-profit public policy organizations, the military, thought leadership and advocacy, academia, and other fields:

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  • Susan C. Gardner, Environment scientist{{Cite web |last=Programme |first=United Nations Environment |date=2018-12-03 |title=Susan Gardner |url=http://www.unep.org/people/susan-gardner |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=UNEP |language=en}}

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  • Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant{{Cite web |title=Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant |url=https://www.monarchie.be/en/royal-family/princess-elisabeth-duchess-of-brabant |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=The Belgian Monarchy |language=en}}(Currently attending until 2026, future Queen of the Belgians) - Heir to the Belgian throne after her father and current ruler Philippe of Belgium

See also

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