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...learned this last Wednesday afternoon from Amir Attaran, a scholar at the Center for International Development (CID). The CID was holding the first meeting of its new study group for undergraduates as part of an effort to reach out to the College. That morning, The Crimson printed an editorial that seemed to suggest that the CID be dissolved "utterly and completely" because of its similarities to its predecessor, the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). After recalling the scandal that brought down the HIID, the editorial questioned "how much good" the CID does undergraduates, claiming that "research done by HIID...
...CID is among the most important programs in the University. The CID teaches development classes (at the College, the Kennedy School of Government and elsewhere); it trains both undergraduate and graduate students via fellows programs; and--unlike most of the rest of the University--it calls attention to issues of moral importance in the world at large...
...obscure, international development issues are concrete and of enormous relevance. Those seriously concerned about human welfare have a responsibility to learn about and fight for the billions of people who, by accident of birth, do not live in rich countries. As well as teaching Harvard students, the CID seeks to educate decision-makers in the outside world; it regularly speaks to legislators, aid workers and philanthropists about how best to help those who need it most...
Similarly, CID is an excellent student resource, as many will attest--including its graduate student fellows, members of the undergraduate International Development Club and the 120 students in the new master's degree program in Public Administration in International Development launched last year at the Kennedy School, largely under CID's initiative...
...part, CID operates, along with countless other centers at the University, at the crucial points of intersect between teaching, research and policy. In this context, your protest against University "institutions that...have a distinctly non-academic purpose" seems to imply that you believe Harvard should strive to be more of an ivory tower. A novel position, certainly...