'Funding for the preceptor position wasn’t guaranteed to last longer than three years — until Romualdez’s pledge,' the story published by The Harvard Crimson reads
MANILA, Philippines – The daily newspaper of Harvard University named Philippine House Speaker Martin Romualdez as a major donor for the institution’s first-ever Filipino language course.who wanted anonymity, said Romualdez committed $2 million to fund the Filipino language instructor’s post.
“Funding for the preceptor position wasn’t guaranteed to last longer than three years — until Romualdez’s pledge,” the report published Thursday, September 14, read. The online article affirms a news report published by the US-based FilAm magazine in August, which said Romualdez donated $1 million for the program.
The magazine cited a “well-placed Filipino Harvard alumnus” who was supposedly present during a dinner in April at the house of Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, a Filipino-American entrepreneur and member of the Harvard board of overseers.Rappler has also emailed the executive director of the Harvard University Asia Center. We will update this story once we have received their reply.
A spokesperson for Harvard and a director for the Asia Center, however, already declined to disclose to“Harvard does not discuss the terms or specifics of individual gifts, and in line with Harvard’s gift policy, donors have no role in the establishment of the courses that are offered,” Harvard University senior director for communications Jonathan Palumbo told the student paper.In August, Philippine news outlet Inquirer.
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