Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management, not slashing any major programs but narrowing the flow of funds at miscellaneous points. In 1976 he saved $60,000 by reducing the number of office phones. More recently, cutbacks in the hours of William James Hall saved about $125,000. This year, Faculty members who take out interest-free educational loans for their children will file forms to allow the Faculty to recover that interest from the federal government--a change that will mean about $100,000 more for the Faculty within about four years...
With the new agency a fait accompli, interest turned immediately to Carter's choice for department secretary. The good money is on former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano with a longtime interest in education, who just happened to be poking around Washington's education community this week...
...cautions that one or two unexpected big local contributions could belie his prediction. "There may be three guys out here with a big interest in the preservation of Memorial Church, for all I know," he says. "The Preservation of Memorial Church" is one of the smaller items on the list of needs the Development Office has distributed to potential contributors--a list that also includes the larger goals of endowing faculty seats and student financial aid, renovating buildings, and funding educational programs like the Core Curriculum...
...might provide. Rubin observes that many students in the first weeks have asked Freshman Task Force members how they can get a guide. Without an alternative to bureaucratic doubletalk and summer camp slogans, SHS will collapse under its own weight. SHS will not fail from lack of freshman interest...
...department threatens the status of higher education programs, it will probably do so in the financial arena. If primary and secondary interest groups dominate agency policy, much sought-after aid to education funds may be rerouted from the nation's colleges...