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...stepped-up recruiting effort on the part of K-School officials in recent years has brought the number of foreign students at the school to more than 100. Many are graduate students and public servants seeking masters in public policy or public administration. In addition, about 50 mid-career officials from developing nations are enrolled in the Mason Program. Drawn from 42 countries, most of the students already hold or will attain key positions of leadership in their native countries...
While the K-School has only recently stepped up its efforts abroad--adding new Third World recruiting teams--it has a long list of illustrious foreign alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau graduated from the school in 1948; Singapore's Premier Lee Kuan Yew was a fellow at the Institute of Politics in 1968 and 1970; and Mexico's President-elect Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received...
Equally impressive are the graduates from the Mason Program, which is administered jointly by the K-School and the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Established in 1957 as an effort to train third world officials in economic development, the program has expanded to include public servants in fields as diverse as health and rural development...
...K-School is trying to change its curriculum to include more foreign cases. Several new internationally oriented offerings have already born introduced. "Public Management in Developing Countries," for example, uses a large majority of non-American cases...
Dukakis now has Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, working as an issues adviser. Jackson in fact speech for the convention's nomination and does some issue advising. And several of his students have done volunteer work. But Jackson stresses that Dukakis kept his campaigning and teaching scrupulously separate. "I am sure that he didn't use the three years at the Kennedy School to develop his policies. Some people are surprised that he didn't hit the ground running, and they ask why he didn't amass a bevy of advisers to write white papers...