Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFTER carefully weighing priorities" for the 1969 budget, President Johnson reduced federal grants for college building programs in order to increase academic research grants and aid to college students. The cutback in construction funds is sure to cause many colleges to delay expansion plans, and the corresponding increase in the other federal programs seems too small to offset rising costs. "We will certainly be worse off under this budget than we were under last year's," says Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning...
Most of Harvard's major construction projects have been planned with the hope of obtaining federal grants to cover as much as one-third of their estimated cost. Particularly vulnerable to Johnson's budget reductions are the new library planned by the Graduate School of Education, two buildings at the Law School designed to provide more classroom and office space, and a Chemistry-Biology building to be built in the new Science Center. The Graduate School of Design and the Widener underground annex might also lose federal grants in the budget pinch. Mather House, however, will be financed completely with...
DESPITE the President's promise in his Education Message last Monday to "eliminate race and income as barriers to higher learning," the budget does not provide a substantial increase in student aid. The U.S. Office of Education will receive an additional 112 million dollars to help students, but Johnson wants more than half of this increase to be used for interest and other payments under his "guaranteed loan program." Frugal congressmen may ignore the President's recommendation that banks receive a service charge of 35 dollars for the cost of paper work involved in administering the plan, since it seems...
...GLANCE at the President's report will reveal the major cause of this shortcoming. Running Harvard University is a gigantic task. In the last ten years, Harvard's budget has tripled to $150 million. There were 14,779 students enrolled in the University last year, not counting 4840 in the summer school and 5469 in various extension courses. The number of corporation appointees was 6788, up from 3496 a decade ago. This administrative burden leaves the President with relatively little time to devote to the College, even less to college students...
...something for college facilities they use. Exactly how much and for what shouldn't be left un-examined by the RUS. "Radcliffe is squandering a lot of money on things lots of students don't want," sophomore Donna Lieberman has claimed. But critics haven't yet checked the budget to find whether their charges are valid. The RUS should also try to decide a set of fiscal priorities--for instance whether the relatively expensive athletics program should continue to be subsidized by all students, even though a relatively small percentage participate in it. Few other Radcliffe issues have aroused such...