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...Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has received a $1.5 million gift to endow a specialized initiative tailored for women with aspirations of holding public office. The endowment was a personal gift from Barbara Lee, a leading activist for women’s political leadership, and will directly fund the Barbara Lee Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series. This initiative is part of a larger program, titled “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office,” focused on training women to succeed in politics despite gender imbalances, according to Victoria Budson, executive director...
...rival Princeton first. Harvard finished third behind Stanford. The annual survey, released in conjunction with Princeton Review’s new book, Parents’ Guide to College Life, can be accessed on the Princeton Review website. NYU announced on Tuesday the receipt of a $200 million bequest to endow an Ancient Studies program. This donation is more than double the largest single gift ever received by Harvard—$70.5 million from the Loeb Family...
Specifically, we hope, except in rare circumstances, that the UC avoids polling directly on legislative items. Doing so would allow the UC to use referenda as a crutch when it feels like avoiding particularly divisive or hairy issues. Moreover, such polling might endow a false sense of legitimacy for the UC to take stands on political issues like foreign policy, domestic policy, or janitor wages—a distraction we have repeatedly lambasted the UC in the past...
...successfully established professorships, the Challenge Fund is unprecedented in scale, as the first such effort focused on faculty throughout the University. The University Campaign, completed in 1999, raised $2.6 billion for educational programs. In 2002, the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences established a $15 million challenge fund to endow 10 professorships and 10 innovation funds in Engineering and Applied Sciences. Now that the University has set the $50 million to match donor gifts, the University will begin its search for potential donors.“We have a list of people who...we are hoping will be the first...
...return for dropping millions of dollars to endow a professorship, donors can forever have their names associated with the esoteric study of their choice...