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...slew of initiatives this year, from the release of a new University-wide calendar to a greater emphasis on University-wide fundraising, have evidenced the new order. And following a decade-and-a-half of fits and starts, cross-school and cross-departmental collaboration have become watchwords for a new guard of administrators looking to make their mark...
...This is the antidote to top-down centralization,” said Provost Steven E. Hyman, whose office focuses on organizing many cross-school initiatives. “That is, central administration convening the key stakeholders and creating a collaborative environment...
...Many cross-faculty initiatives were really owned by the center and therefore got ambivalent support from the schools because they were drawing away school faculty time and effort,” Hyman said last week. “One just had the feeling that we got wonderful support from Neil Rudenstine and everything else felt challenging...
...This tradition of financial independence has required some maneuvering as the University moves towards cross-school collaboration—perhaps most contentiously on the fundraising side, as top brass have slowly begun to urge donors to support University-wide efforts instead of the wish-lists of single schools...
...Though Rudenstine identified interdisciplinary endeavors as a priority in his capital campaign, he found donor support lacking. In 1999, just six months from the end of his five-year campaign, Harvard had raised only half of its modest $40 million goal for its new stable of cross-school initiatives...