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...HIID projects bolster Harvard's status as the world's most respected educational consulting and planning firm. Lester E. Gordon, HIID's director, says the institute "is tending away from large national planning projects toward sectoral projects in health, education, and urban and rural planning." But the conclusion remains inescapable--Harvard has, by any standards, become an international force to be reckoned with. The funding of Harvard's international projects--the $2-million Kenya agricultural deal currently in the works is a good example--is often itself international in scope. (In the Kenya project, the funding is coming from five...
Many feel Harvard's increasing overseas involvement may be due, at least in part, to the drying up of funding sources at home, and even to the general increase in federal regulation of higher education. According to one participant in a recent abortive Med School-Saudi Arabian project, terminated apparently for a combination of "moral" and financial reasons, "when the [financial] going gets tough, the toughest get going--overseas...
More important, however, is that almost every project undertaken by the University over the past several years has met with some form of community protest. Community problems surrounding the construction of the new Mission Hill student housing project near the Medical area have only recently been ironed out. A proposed Medical area power plant has met with stiff community opposition on environmental grounds. Members of the Harvard community have criticized the recently opened Soldiers Field Road apartment complex across the river in Allston for its high rents and consequently low availability to students. And, of course, Harvard's most outspoken...
Rosovsky announced his decision to okay the project on Monday. That night, the Cambridge City Council voted to hold a hearing on the proposed lab, which is slated to be on the fourth floor of the Biological Laboratories with the next to highest safety precautions for research facilities...
...like me, I'm sure she's still up working all night on the project...I'll call her at the lab. She'll probably be so glad that someone cares so much for her research and knows all about it, she'll offer me a job; it's just what I was interested...