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All proceeds will go to the Jimmy Fund, which supports the fight against cancer in children and adults at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Gordon, who led the $4.4 billion renovation of Logan International Airport before coming to Harvard, will continue to work at Harvard Business School teaching real estate courses.
With the promise of an additional 450,000 square feet of space, Allston would have lifted much of the pressure imposed by overcrowding at the school, which hampered its ability to expand its teaching and research facilities.
The program, which recruited 21 Ph.D.s for a one-year teaching and research fellowship, was initially conceived as a cost-cutting mechanism. Since the hiring slowdown limited the number of new lecturers FAS could hire last year, the new program provided a much cheaper alternative.
Some administrators, however, consider the College Fellow Program to be more than a mere economic solution to the hiring slowdown. For some, the initiative also provides former graduate students the rare opportunity to spend a year developing their teaching skills, thereby making them more competitive in the job market.