John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Established: | 1936 |
Type: | Private |
Endowment: | US$1.1 billion |
Dean: | David Ellwood |
Faculty: | 138 |
Students: | 1062 |
Location: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
Campus: | Urban |
Website: | www.hks.harvard.edu |
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS)[1] is a public policy and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. It offers master's degrees in public policy, urban planning, public administration, and international development, grants several doctoral degrees, administers executive programs for senior government officials, and conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, and economics.
The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The main buildings overlook the Charles River, southeast 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.
Since 2004, the School's Dean has been David Ellwood, who is also the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at HKS. Previously, Ellwood was an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration.[2]
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[edit] History
[edit] Graduate School of Public Administration
Harvard Kennedy School was originally the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA), and was founded in 1936 with a $2 million gift from Lucius N. Littauer, a graduate of Harvard College.[3] 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, now the home of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were so-called "Littauer Fellows," participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career Master of Public Administration program. In the 1960s, the School began to develop today's public policy degree and course curriculum in the Master of Public Policy program.
[edit] Renaming and move
In 1966, the School was renamed for President John F. Kennedy. By 1978, the faculty—notably presidential scholar and adviser Richard Neustadt, foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School Graham Allison, Richard Zeckhauser, and Edith Stokey—had orchestrated the consolidation of the School's programs and research centers in the present campus. Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current HKS campus also features a building called Littauer.
In addition to playing a critical role in the development of the School's modern era, Neustadt, who at the time served as the Assistant Dean, was also the founding Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP), created in 1966 in honor of President Kennedy.[4] The IOP has been housed on the Kennedy School campus since 1978, and today the Institute puts on a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. The John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum in the new Littauer building is both the site of IOP forums as well as a major social gathering place between HKS courses.
[edit] Academics
[edit] Degrees
Currently, Harvard Kennedy School offers five master's degree programs.[5] The Master of Public Policy (MPP) program focuses on policy analysis, economics, management in the public sector, and policy design. The Master in Public Policy and Urban Planning (MPP/UP) program adds to the MPP track with HKS courses in urban design and affairs, as well as required studio coursework at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
There are also three separate Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs: a one-year "mid-career program" (MC/MPA), intended for professionals more than seven years from college graduation; a two-year MPA program intended for professionals that 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, and with a strong emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis. Among the members of the mid-career MPA class are the Mason Fellows, who currently serve as public and private executives.
In addition to the master's programs, HKS also administers four doctoral programs. PhD degrees are awarded in Political Economy and Government, Public Policy, and Social Policy, in conjunction with the Departments of Government and Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as in Health Policy, in conjunction with FAS and the Harvard School of Public Health.
[edit] 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 HKS courses. At Harvard, HKS joint degree programs are run with Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and concurrent programs are offered with Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Medical School.
Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other selective law, business, and medical schools throughout the country. These include: Columbia Business School; Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University; MIT Sloan School of Management; Stanford Business School; 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 Medical Center.[6]
[edit] HKS courses
HKS courses[7] are divided into the following listing of policy areas: Analysis of Policies and Institutions; Strategic Management of Public Organizations; Political Advocacy and Leadership; Business and Government Policy; Crime and Criminal Justice; Environment and Natural Resources; Health Care Policy; Human Resources, Labor and Education; Housing, Urban Development, and Transportation; International and Global Affairs; International Trade and Finance; Nonprofit Sector; Political Economy and Development; Press, Politics, and Public Policy; Science, Technology, and Public Policy.
The school divides the HKS course listing into five areas, each headed by a faculty "area chair." The areas and chairs for HKS courses are:
Management and Leadership - Prof. Mary Joe Bane
International Relations, Science, and Security - Prof. Ashton Carter
Democratic Institutions and Politics - Prof. Alex Keyssar
Social Policy - Prof. Jose Gomez-Ibanez
Markets and Methods - Prof. Christopher Avery
In addition to offerings in the HKS course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for many courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard. Students are also able to sample beyond the Harvard and HKS course listing, at the MIT Sloan School of Management, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and in urban planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[edit] Notable HKS faculty
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[edit] Centers
Harvard Kennedy School is home to 15 centers, several of which are located at HKS but University-wide.[8]
- Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation[9]
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs[10]
- Carr Center for Human Rights Policy[11]
- Center for International Development[12]
- Center for Public Leadership[13]
- Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations[14]
- Institute of Politics[15]
- Edmund J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics[16]
- Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy[17]
- Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government[18]
- Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston[19]
- Taubman Center for State and Local Government[20]
- Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy[21]
- Joint Center for Housing Studies[22]
- Women and Public Policy Program[23]
[edit] Student life
There is an active student life at HKS, despite the fact that most students are at the School for two years or less. Most of the activities are centered around interest-driven student 'caucuses,' the student government (Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG), a student newspaper (The Citizen), student-edited policy journals, and a number of athletic groups.
Elections for HKS student government are among the most lively of the activities at the School, as one might expect for a school of government. The KSSG is led by a President, Executive Vice President, functional Vice Presidents and Class Representatives. The KSSG is also responsible for overseeing the interest caucuses at the School.
The courtyard nestled between the main Kennedy School buildings is a key attraction for students who gather there to work on their assignments, have lunch, or relax. During the warmer months, the School frequently sponsors beer and barbecue events which give students the opportunity to socialize. During the colder months, "Quorom Calls" are held in one of the indoor atriums, to celebrate the end of each week of HKS courses with friends.
[edit] Rankings
Harvard Kennedy School receives high rankings in the U.S. News & World Report listing of top graduate schools of public affairs. In the 2008 rankings, HKS is ranked second overall, and is ranked first in the subcategories of public policy analysis, health policy & management, and social policy.[24]
[edit] HKS degree program alumni
[edit] Government and politics
- Jonathan S. Adelstein ('87) - commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (MPA ’78) – former Mexican National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations
- Ami Ayalon (MPA ’92) – member, Israeli Knesset
- Nisrin Barwari (MPA ’99) – Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and Public Works
- Doug Bereuter (MPA '73) - former U.S. Congressman, Nebraska
- J. Richard Blankenship (MPA '08) - former U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas
- André Boisclair (MPA ‘05) - former leader of Parti Québécois; former Quebec Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
- Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (MPA ‘00) - President of Mexico
- Andrew Card (’80) - White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush
- Frank Chikane (MPA ‘95) - member, African National Congress; South African adviser to the President
- Henry Cisneros (MPA '73) - former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Frances D. Cook (MPA '78) - former U.S. Ambassador to Oman
- Gerry Connolly (MPA '79) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 11th District of Virginia
- David Cunliffe (MPA ’95) - member, Parliament of New Zealand
- Božidar Đelić (MPA, MBA '91) - former Minister of Finance, current Vice-President of the Government of Serbia
- John R. Davis, Jr. (MPA '65) - former U.S. Ambassador to Poland
- Henry DeSio (MPA '01) - Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama for Management and Administration; former COO, Obama for America '08
- Shaun Donovan (MPA '95) - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj (MPA ‘02) - former Prime Minister of Mongolia
- Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. (MPA '56) - former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
- Anna Escobedo Cabral (MPA ‘90) - former U.S. Treasurer
- José María Figueres (MPA ‘91) - former President of Costa Rica, CEO of the World Economic Forum
- Robert S. Gelbard (MPA '79) - former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Bolivia
- Hector Gramajo (MPA ‘95) – former Defense Minister of Guatemala
- Alan Grayson (MPP/JD '83) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Florida
- Katherine Harris (MPA ‘97) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Florida; former Florida Secretary of State
- Keith Hennessey (MPP '94) - former director, White House National Economic Council
- Brian Higgins (MPA '96) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York
- Stephen Horn (MPA '55) - former U.S. Congressman, California
- Rafael Hui (MPA ‘83) – former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong
- Vuk Jeremić (MPA/ID ’03) - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (MPA ‘71) - President of Liberia
- Shane Jones (MPA '91) - member, Parliament of New Zealand, and chair of finance committee
- Raymond W. Kelly (MPA '84) - New York City Police Commissioner
- Lim Hng Kiang (MPA ‘85) - Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore; member of the Cabinet of Singapore
- Ban Ki-moon (MPA ‘84) – United Nations Secretary General
- Jim Langevin (MPA '94) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District of Rhode Island
- John P. Lewis (MPA '43) - former Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers
- Joseph Limprecht (MPA '81) - former U.S. Ambassador to Albania
- Lee Hsien Loong (MPA ‘80) - Prime Minister of Singapore
- Leopoldo Lopez (MPP ’96) - mayor of Chacao municipality, Caracas, Venezuela
- Stephen F. Lynch (MPA ‘99) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of Massachusetts
- Miguel de la Madrid (MPA ‘65) - former President of Mexico
- Dan Maffei (MPP '95) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 25th District of New York
- Nabiel Makarim (MPA '84) - former Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia
- Jamil Mahuad (MPA '89) - former President of Ecuador
- John T. McCarthy (MPA '73) - former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia
- Mark McClellan (MPA ‘91) – former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration; former administrator of Medicare and Medicaid
- David Medina - (MPP '93) - Deputy chief of staff, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama
- Francis J. Meehan (MPA '57) - former U.S. Ambassador to East Germany
- Toshimitsu Motegi (MPP '83) - Financial Services Minister of Japan
- Jim Moody (MPA '67) - former U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin
- Daniel Mudd (MPA '86) - former president and CEO of U.S. Fannie Mae
- George Muñoz (MPP/JD '78) - former CFO of the U.S. Department of Treasury; former president and CEO of OPIC
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Myers (MPA ’00) – chief operating officer, Obama for America '08
- Andrew Natsios (MPA '79) former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development
- Christine Nixon (MPA ’85) - Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police
- Herbert S. Okun (MPA '59) - former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Francis Pangilinan (MPA ’98) - Senator and the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Philippines
- Marcus Peacock (MPP ’86) - former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Cao Duc Phat (MPA'95) - Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam
- Larry Pressler (MPA ’66) - former U.S. Senator from South Dakota
- William Proxmire (MPA '48) - former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
- Jack Reed (MPP ’73) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
- Angelo Reyes (MPA ’90) - Secretary of the Department of Energy of the Philippines; former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines
- Eduardo Rodríguez (MPA '88) - former President of Bolivia
- Pete Rouse (MPA '77) - Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama; former co-head of the Obama-Biden Transition Project
- Doug Rubin (MPP' 97) - Chief of Staff to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari (MPA ’73, Phd ‘76) - former President of Mexico
- Joe Sestak (MPA '84) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District of Pennsylvania
- Yasuhisa Shiozaki (MPA ‘82) – former Chief Cabinet Secretary, Japan
- Rob Simmons (MPA '79) - former U.S. Congressman, Connecticut
- Frederick Sumaye (MPA '07) former Prime Minister of Tanzania
- Nancy Sutley (MPP '86) - Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality
- Syahrir (MPA ’80, PhD ‘83) - Economic Adviser in the Republic of Indonesia's Council of Presidential Advisors
- William B. Taylor, Jr. (MPP '77) - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
- James D. Theberge (MPA '65) - former U.S. Ambassador to Chile
- Peter G. Torkildsen (MPA '90) - former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts; former chair of Massachusetts Republican Party
- Robert Torricelli (MPA '80) - former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (MA '45, GSPA) - former Prime Minister of Canada
- Donald Tsang (MPA ’82) - Hong Kong Chief Executive
- Paul Tsongas ('73) - former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Chris Van Hollen (MPP ’85) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Maryland
- Paul Volcker (MA ‘51, GSPA) – former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve; economic advisor to President Barack Obama
- Earl Anthony Wayne (MPA '84) - U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
- Kevin White (MA '57, GSPA) – Boston, Massachusetts former mayor
- David Wilhelm (MPP '90) - campaign manager, Clinton/Gore '92; former chair, Democratic National Committee
- Anthony A. Williams (MPP/JD ’87) – Washington, D.C. former mayor
- Robert Zoellick (MPP/JD '81) - President of the World Bank; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and U.S. Trade Representative
- Miomir Žužul (PhD '99) - former Foreign Minister of Croatia; former ambassador to the United Nations
[edit] Non-profit
- Nicholas Boles (MPP ‘89) - former director of Policy Exchange
- Lester R. Brown (MPA '62) - founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute
- Robert Kagan (MPP '91) - co-founder, Project for a New American Century
- Nancy LeaMond (MCP '74) - Executive Vice President, AARP
- Nancy Lindborg (MPA ’92) - President of Mercy Corps
- Michelle Rhee (MPP ’97) - founder of The New Teacher Project; Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system
[edit] Military
- Christopher C. Ames (MPA '91) - U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral
- Charles Hooper (MPA '89) - U.S. Army General
- Jeffrey Fowler (MPA '90) - United States Navy, Vice Admiral; Superintendent, United States Naval Academy
- Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. (MPA '80) - United States Army, Lt. Col.; author of The Army and Vietnam
- Guy C. Swan III (MPA '86) - U.S. Army Major General, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington and Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region
[edit] Academia
- William Alonso (MCP ’56) – economist, former director of Harvard Center for Population Studies
- Douglas Anderson (MPA ’76, PhD ’78) – Dean, Utah State University Huntsman School of Business
- Lawrence S. Bacow (MPP '76, PhD '76) – President of Tufts University
- Steve Charnovitz (MPP '83) - Associate Professor at George Washington University
- Jose Gomez-Ibanez (MPP '72, PhD '74) - Derek Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Harvard University
- Stephen Horn (MPA '55) - former president of California State University, Long Beach
- Ira Jackson (MPA ‘86) – Dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University
- Mark Lilla (MPP ’80) – Professor of humanities at Columbia University
- Mark Moore (MPP '71, PhD '74) - Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School
- Joan Parrott-Fonseca (MPA '98) - Dean, School of Business, Medger Evers College, CUNY
- Henry Richardson (MPP '81) - Professor of philosophy at Georgetown University
- Donald M. Stewart (MPA '69) - former president of Spelman College
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (MPA '66) - former president of George Washington University
- Jonathan Zittrain (MPA/JD '95) - professor, Harvard Law School; co-founder Berkman Center at Harvard
[edit] Journalism
- Mark A. R. Kleiman (MPP, PhD '85) - author of Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control and Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results
- Beth Knobel (MPP '87, PhD '92) - CBS News Moscow correspondent
- Bill O'Reilly (MPA ’96) - host, the O'Reilly Factor
- Andrew Sullivan (MPA, PhD '90) – journalist, The Atlantic Monthly
[edit] Business
- Gregory C. Carr (MPP '86) - founder, Boston Technology
- Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. (MPA '75) - former president of the National League
- Gregory B. Kenny (MPA '82) - CEO of General Cable
- Bruce Kovner (’71) – founder and Chairman, Caxton Associates
- Debra L. Lee (MPP/JD '80) - President and CEO, Black Entertainment Television
- Daniel N. Mendelson (MPA '90) - President, Avalere Health
- David Morehouse (MPA '99) - President, Pittsburgh Penguins
- Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani (MPA '82) - Chairman, Mondoil Enterprises
- Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg (MPA '71) - founder, President, CEO of Strategic Investment Group
- Judith C. Pelham (MPA '75) - former CEO of Trinity Health
- Jerome Rappaport (MPA '63) - founder and Chairman, the New Boston Fund
- Klaus Schwab (MPA ’67) – founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
- Mark Schwartz (MPP '79) - former CEO of Soros Fund Management
- Faryar Shirzad (MPP' 89) - managing director, Goldman Sachs, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
- George Williams (MPA '75) - Williams Partners, Inc.
[edit] Arts
- Hill Harper (MPA/JD ‘92) - Actor
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Kennedy School Web site asks what you can do — The Harvard University Gazette
- ^ Harvard Kennedy School - David Ellwood
- ^ Harvard Kennedy School - History
- ^ Kumar, Martha Joynt. "Richard Elliott Neustadt, 1919-2003: a tribute," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Mar. 1, 2004, pg. 1
- ^ Harvard Kennedy School - Office of Admissions
- ^ Harvard Kennedy School - Joint & Concurrent Degrees
- ^ HKS Course Listing
- ^ Harvard Kennedy School - Centers
- ^ Ash Institute For Democratic Governance and Innovation
- ^ Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- ^ Carr Center for Human Rights Policy | John F. Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University
- ^ http://cid.harvard.edu
- ^ http://cpl.harvard.edu/
- ^ Harvard Kennedy School
- ^ Harvard University Institute of Politics
- ^ Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics : Home
- ^ Shorenstein Center Home Page
- ^ Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
- ^ Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston
- ^ The Taubman Center:
- ^ http://www.hks.harvard.edu/socpol/
- ^ Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies - Home Page
- ^ Women and Public Policy Program
- ^ America's Best Graduate Schools 2008: Complete Guide to Public Affairs Programs
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