Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Building upon the University's extensive Judaica collection, the drive's eventual goal is to provide six endowed professorship and scholar programs for the Jewish Studies Center. The six professorships will be in a particular facet of Jewish scholarship and will be worked into existing departments including History, Philosophy, Religion...
...vice president for alumni affairs and development, explains, "and claim that our program will benefit the group that we approach." In the East Asian Studies Program, for example, the University has been remarkably successful in convincing Japanese, Korean, and other East-Asian-based corporations that an East Asian center at Harvard will ultimately benefit these corporations because it will strengthen ties to the United States. In this same way a group of Korean business men has contributed $1 million for a chair in Modern Korean Economics and Society, hoping the chair will provide valuable training for students who will eventually...
...Program for Harvard College would take three years to complete and ultimately increase money for Faculty endowments, boost financial aid to undergraduates, establish the University Health Center and the current athletic program, and provide money for endowments and undergraduate and married student housing...
...formula. Pusey's fundraisers racked up an additional $125 million through the remainder of his term, making a grand total of $207 million. Money from the drives went for the creation of Medical and Law School development offices, the program for Harvard Science (which eventually built the science center), the Pusey Library, and the International Studies building...
Because of inflation, faculty salaries, graduate teaching fellows and many of the programs at the school of education have been phased out. The Russian Research Center and the University's libraries and museums are currently keeping pace with inflation through a combination of minor retrenchments, including revenue drawn from the Faculty budget. Indeed many of the drives the development office now heads are designed to provide endowments for these libraries and museums...