Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to raise the salaries, which was made in the face of a large projected budget deficit from 1968-69, was necessary to keep up with increased cost of living for teaching fellows, Dean Ford said. The raises will put an additional burden of $300,000 on the already-tight Faculty of Arts and Science budget, Ford said...
...Ford added that there was "no new item of income that specifically justified" the $300,000 expenditure. To find the extra money, Ford said he was simply gambling that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could receive more money than it had originally been budgeted, or that the deficit could be covered through "the normal channels"--such as surpluses from the summer school...
Last Fall, after Dean Ford and Dean John P. Elder of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences rejected the requests, the Federation began a quiet campaign to enlist the aid and sympathies of tenured faculty members at Harvard...
...Dean Ford said last summer that the University would increase scholarship aid next year, but not enough to cover the entire $400 raise...
...increase, Ford said, was the result of rising costs that had not been expected when the last tuition increase was announced...