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The group will consist of directors of the three human rights centers at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and Harvard School of Public Health.
With the restructuring of the committee—which had focused on the development of undergraduate courses—human rights education will become the responsibility of the Ethnic Studies Committee, an interdisciplinary collection of faculty that introduced a secondary degree in Ethnic Studies this year.
Since its inception, UCHRS sought to integrate human rights activities into the “Harvard mainstream,” according to current UCHRS director Jacqueline Bhabha, who will assume the post of University Advisor on Human Rights Education on the new directorate.
In addition to its mission of University-wide collaboration, the UCHRS offers a variety of research grants and runs Scholars at Risk, a fellowship program that invites scholars who are at risk of persecution in their native countries to Harvard. The new directorate will assume control of the program.
Because the two staff members who currently work at UCHRS had already made plans to depart, no staff positions will be lost as a result of the human rights committee’s closure, according to Hyman.