An able lobbiest, Shattuck nevertheless seems to feel most satisfied dealing with the issue that will soon consume most of his time: human rights. In fact, it is that issue that was the focus of his life before he came to Harvard in 1984, and that has occupied him even during his tenure here.

The 49-year-old former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington D.C. office, Shattuck has served as an active volunteer leader of Amnesty International in the United States. He has also served on the boards of the National Security Archive, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the Petra Foundation, the Fund for Peace and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

While Shattuck has not ruled out a return to Harvard at some point in the future, he has said that it would not be in his current capacity. That role will be filled temporarily by Jane H. Corlette, director of governmental relations for health policy, while a national search is conducted for a replacement. Sources have said that Corlette is not interested in holding the job permanently.

Accompanying Shattuck to Washington will be his wife, Ellen Hume '68, senior fellow at the Kennedy School's Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Shattuck's departure is not the end of the Cambridge-Washington line. Indications are that more University employees will move to Washington soon, even as the Kennedy School, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Law School have already taken a beating from Clinton appointments and nominations.

The Kennedy School

Nowhere has the impact been stronger than at the Kennedy School.

According to Kennedy School spokesperson Steven R. Singer, half a dozen faculty members, including the school's only tenured woman, have been nominated or are now under consideration for administration posts.

"I think that it's good news for the country," said Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore. "We're proud of the fact that they've been selected and are going."

The only Senate confirmation thus far has been of former Lecturer on Public Policy Robert B. Reich as secretary of labor. But others are soon to follow, and Kennedy School faculty are concerned about the departures.

Moore said there will be problems for the school in the short run. "We've taken some pretty big hits in foreign policy ... and human resources," he says.

Warren Professor of History Ernest R. May also said the school would temporarily feel the impact of the departures. "In the short run it will make it very difficult," he said. "They will be sorely missed."

Among those to be missed are Wiener Professor of Social Policy Mary Jo Bane and Academic Dean David T. Ellwood '76.

Bane has been nominated for assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and Human Services, while Ellwood, who has worked closely with Bane in the past, is expected to join her as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation.

Assistant Professor of Public Policy John D. Donahue will leave to serve as Reich's advisor, a position Singer said did not require Senate confirmation.