Keeping to Culture
Harvard's Weatherhead Center creates dialogues between academics from all over the world.
James A. Cooney '69, executive director of the center, says some national governments do sponsor visiting scholars and professors. He cites the Thyssen and Bosch foundations in Germany as two donors supporting the international exchanges of a postdoctoral student and a professor.
Other programs through the Weatherhead Center can bring diplomats from other nations to Harvard, Cooney says.
Margaret B. Alexiou is happy with the fact that Harvard gets money from different places. After all, she points out, as Seferis Chair of Modern Greek she holds a chair entirely funded by Greek monies, including academic foundations.
"I think it's been a very good thing," she says. "Without that outside funding this chair would not exist."
She adds that since her arrival in January 1986, Harvard has been generous in its support of the classics department's graduate programs.
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