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...Iranian minister of science and higher education Abdol Samii showed them a site on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi wished to see a graduate research facility built on the remote site, Samii said. The shah desired to name it Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), in honor of his father, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty...
...center. Harvard charged the Shah $400,000 to undertake a feasibility study of the project, an agreement that resulted in the 1975 publication of an Academic Planning Report. In 1976, Harvard signed a new contract with the Shah, agreeing, for $500,000, to design a master plan for RSKU. The new university was to be based largely on the present structure of Harvard. "We have modified the forms of the Harvard boards to adapt to the situation in Iran while retaining those central features which have served Harvard well over many years," the report states...
...connection with the Shah's government do not disturb him. But some criticize Harvard's involvement with RKSU. Shahrokh Rouhani an Iranian graduate student in the Division of Applied Sciences, says that while he doesn't disagree with the goal of enlightening a backward environment, a facility like RSKU "would actually have created an island in society." Rouhani argues that while "basic deficiencies" still plague Iran's high school system, a graduate research facility cannot benefit the Iranians...
...RSKU is intended to educate advanced English-speaking Iranian students, and is partly staffed by American professors...
...years ago, however, Harvard decided not to participate in academic counseling at RSKU because some members of a Harvard advisory board ofjected to the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's reported violations of human rights