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Harvard Kennedy School was founded in 1936 as the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, following a $2 million gift from Lucius Littauer, an 1878 Harvard College alumnus, former U.S. Congressman, and the first coach of the Harvard Crimson football team. That donation is equivalent to roughly $43 million as of 2023.
The school was renamed in honor of President John F. Kennedy in 1966, three years after his assassination. Kennedy had been a 1940 Harvard College alumnus. The renaming also coincided with the creation of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Harvard Kennedy School offers four master's degree programs: the two-year Master in Public Policy, a one-year Mid-Career Master in Public Administration, a two-year MPA, and a two-year MPA in International Development. It also administers doctoral programs in public policy, social policy, and health policy.
Harvard Kennedy School alumni include 21 heads of state or government from around the world. Among them are two Nobel Peace Prize laureates: Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia.
On the 13th of September, 2017, Harvard Kennedy School offered Chelsea Manning a fellowship. It rescinded the offer two days later, on the 15th of September, after CIA director Mike Pompeo canceled a speaking engagement at Harvard and sent a letter condemning the university for the award.
Harvard Kennedy School is on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its main buildings overlook the Charles River, on the site of a former MBTA Red Line train yard, and the campus is adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.