Word: alumni
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...trustees meet four times a year, but an executive committee meets monthly to conduct more immediate business. "The executive committee does the nitty-gritty stuff," Burr says. Their composition is much less homogeneous than the Corporation's--the mix of alumni, parents, academics, businessmen and professionals (not to mention the presence of women and minority group members) make the Radcliffe trustees more like Harvard's Board of Overseers than the Corporation. (The Overseers are a larger group that meets less frequently than the Corporation and advises the University on non-financial matters...
...both college Presidents in 1973 appointed the Committee to Consider Aspects of the Harvard-Radcliffe Relationship that Affect Administrative Arrangements, Admissions, Financial Aid and Educational Policy, to do just that. Karl Strauch, Leverett Professor of Physics chaired the panel--simply called the "Strauch Committee"--composed of admissions personnel and alumni from both colleges, administrators and students. The Strauch Committee met several times between February 1974 and 1975, to draw its conclusion that because the separate admissions policies were so similar, Harvard and Radcliffe could easily combine admissions. The group noted that with the exception of the quota system both colleges...
...says. But John W. Finn, U of M's associate director of housing, says his office hears only of the extreme cases, and most complaints come from a few parents shocked to find out what college life is like now. Certainly personal and social freedom unknown to even recent alumni exists now on most campuses...
...reason Harvard can attract the kind of huge gifts it is counting on during its five-year, $250 million Harvard Campaign is its "good aura of investment management," Putnam says. "Alumni will only give when they think their money will be managed well--people will set up trust funds for Yale," putting a gift in a private manager's hands and sending Yale the interest, he says. But he adds that Yale's "aura" is worse than it deserves...
Reardon says the public policy segment of the campaign is likely to interest non-alumni, foundations and corporations more than the Faculty part. Officials, however, say they have no foundation grants or major advance pledges to announce...