The W.R. Hewlett Foundation has donated $1 million to Harvard to establish the first endowed chair in public policy and administration at the Kennedy School of Government.
Don K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday that he has not yet begun the selection process to find an occupant for the chair but added that "the gift provides this school with the freedom to select the professor who can make the greatest contribution to teaching future public officials in this important field."
Price said the terms of the endowment do not require that the chair be awarded to someone already teaching at the Kennedy School.
William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Company and founder of the newly-formed Hewlett foundation, consulted with Bok and Price before making the donation.
Hewlett was a member of the Visiting Committee to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and of the President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs from 1965 to 1968.
Hewlett is also a director of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and a former trustee of Stanford University.
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