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...spokesman for the Yale Corporation said President A. Bartlett Giamatti felt a need to raise faculty salaries because they must remain competitive. However, the spokesman said the corporation's primary concern is to balance the budget by 1981 and end the deficit that has plagued Yale since...
...Bartlett Giamatti, 41. The Yale faculty cheered last spring when a humanist was chosen to lead the institution during its days of austerity. A man who loves the Red Sox and Renaissance literature, Giamatti is a true blue (class of '60 and teacher since '66). The youngest president of Yale in 200 years, Giamatti faces the challenge of reducing a $19 million deficit without sacrificing the quality of education. So far, he has begun a complete review of operating costs and instituted stiff cutbacks in the nonacademic staff. "I hope to see a Yale College with fewer students, a curriculum...
With a sigh of relief, Yale University officials last week proclaimed the triumph of their $370 million fund-raising campaign, the largest ever undertaken by a U.S. university. Said Yale's president, A. Bartlett Giamatti: "Clearly a tremendous success has been achieved." He might have added: "Finally...
Originally announced in 1974 as a 3½-year drive, the campaign deadline had to be extended, first by one year and then by another six months. Fund raising was hampered by poor coordination of 5,400 volunteer solicitors, and by the mid-campaign departure of Giamatti's predecessor, Kingman Brewster, who joked that his supporters among Old Blues would contribute before he left (to become U.S. ambassador to Britain), while his detractors would contribute after his departure. Something like that may have happened: Campaign Director Lloyd N. Cutler said last week that "a number of people who were...
...receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts. He very nearly did not make it, however. His plane was diverted to Bridgeport because New Haven was fogged in. Baryshnikov had to be rushed to the campus by police escort, arriving barely in time to hear Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti declare: "You have brought classical dance to millions as you made your grands jetés into their lives. With the courage of your conviction that artistic growth demands adventure, you have dared to let 'push come to shove' as you moved from Petipa to Tharp and Balanchine...