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Several internationalists at the school--citing both the resources Harvard can provide foreign students and the insight these students can offer their American colleagues--have been largely responsible for the increased recruiting effort. William E. Trueheart, director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, recalls that contacts with foreign students when he was a graduate student at Harvard had a significant impact on his education. "The diversity that students from other countries bring is critical and leaves a mark on your academic experience. You build lasting friendships and more importantly, gain a very different perspective...
...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 an MPA...
...Tarver becomes assistant dean and director of the MPA program, he will assume the post July...
...similarity between Engelhard and Hitler's characters. Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, did not buy the argument, however. Part of his job is to take into account the interests of alumni and donors to the K-School--in this case Engelhard's daughter, Sophie (MPA, '77)--and those of K-School students. He says protesters have shrouded the issue in rhetoric. "It was a triumph of symbolism over substance. It had no impact on anybody who lives in South Africa or who might have been a victim. In that sense it has been an inflated...
...change after the initial protest. K-School students--many of them mid-career bureaucrats studying areas involving problem-solving--began to debate the controversy through meetings and discussions rather than protest. Their position had initially mirrored that of the undergraduate protesters. But to many students in the one-year MPA program, resolving the controversy within the year became a matter of pride. The K-School students went out of their way to negotiate the issue...