Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rationale for raising 60 per cent of the funds which are still earmarked by Harvard for constructing its facility was centralization of the University's diverse regional study centers. But now it appears that most of the Government and Economics Departments along with the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) will be at the Charles River site--without any unifying academic purpose for the building...
...recent survey of key faculty and administrators by The Crimson shows that the proposed movement of the CFIA from Divinity Ave. to the Kennedy complex would in fact physically split international studies at Harvard leaving the Middle Eastern, Russia. West European and East Asian Centers located northeast of the Yard...
...administration insists on moving the CFIA to maintain a pretense of an international flavor in the proposed building...
...point there was considerable faculty initiative for building a center for international studies. The group, including Robert R. Bowie, then director of the CFIA, was awarded $2.5 million by the Ford Foundation in the early sixties for a Center of International and Regional Studies. The plan included the East Asian Center, the Russian Research Center, and the Middle Eastern Center, as well as the CFIA, in a new building next to Littauer. But the whole project was left up in the air when the administration decided to build the Science Center on that site...
...four original research centers, only the CFIA will be located on the Kennedy Library site. Lack of space in the planned building due to cutbacks in the building's scale and the decisions of some key regional research centers to stay out of the facility have radically altered the nature of the proposed facility...