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Closing down the center would be a blow to the school, according to Nye. He said a large center like CID is costly to maintain...
...such a critical juncture in their lives, undergraduates require an alternative to the more traditional careers offered in the corporate sector. The CID provides just that—last year alone, the Center disbursed over $16,000 in grants to undergraduates for summer research in developing countries. Since 2002, 30 students have participated in fully-funded internships as English instructors in Namibia, Costa Rica, China and Ecuador through the Center’s alliance with WorldTeach. Prominent policymakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations have attended CID dinners to speak to students about careers and issues related to development; last...
Shutting down the Center would come at great cost to the student body—Harvard offers scant resources for the study of developing countries as it is. Outside the CID these are dispersed over dozens of departments and academic centers, such that students interested in majoring in the field must petition for a special concentration. Lacking the CID’s crucial cluster of resources, undergraduates would have virtually no incentive to study development. Summers has indicated that should he proceed with a shutdown, students would not lose these programs. Yet even assuming the ideal scenario—that...
...personal level, the CID exposed me to what I perceive as the biggest challenge to development: systematic violence. Two years ago, I traveled to Rwanda with five other undergraduates to observe an experiment in transitional justice in the aftermath of the country’s 1994 genocide. Some of us spent weeks monitoring proceedings in rural courts; others interviewed more than 40 survivors, prisoners and members of parliament about grassroots justice. It was an extraordinary opportunity for us to pursue serious field research in one of the world’s poorest nations, and to have our findings published...
...countless others, the Center has a symbolic role: it is the home of a vibrant interdisciplinary community pursuing solutions to global challenges and encouraging students in their quest to do the same. Losing the CID would dismantle the University’s strongest pillar of research and innovation in the field of sustainable development, and deal a major blow to future undergraduates who aspire to affect positive change in the developing world...