According to Thompson, these and other Harvard graduate schools have been increasingly involved in international development and research.

One of the biggest advantages of having HIID functions move to individual schools would be increased accessibility for students and faculty.

"This kind of integration will be better certainly for teaching and research," Thompson said. "I take a very positive view."

HIID staff may begin familiarizing faculty from the various schools with HIID contacts even before the dissolution is final, Pagett said.

According to the report, some HIID functions may not carry over to specific schools. And if the recommendation is accepted, the annual budget for HIID-type projects is likely to be cut.

Pagett says that estimating a new operating budget is difficult because programs will be under the jurisdiction of different graduate school deans. The funding will certainly be cut to some extent, Pagett says, but the degree will be determined by what the schools decide they want. In the past, HIID has drawn fire for having a larger budget than certain of Harvard's graduate schools.

The functions of HIID should be geared more toward the University's teaching and research, the report says.

In a memorandum to HIID staff, Fineberg wrote that any comments sent to him by today would be helpful.