Word: kaufmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert E. Kaufmann, Harvard associate dean, on the university's $9,000 tuition, following one of the largest jumps in fees in 343 years: "We don't know if the increase will meet strong student resistance...
...Kaufmann, Peter Clifton, Tom Reardon, Fred Glimp...
...office with strong arguments for small increases in staffing, arguments that were hard to refute or refuse. There was no way to pit them against each other or to put the proverbial big picture together. Under the revised system, each year at this time the department heads meet with Kaufmann and other financial officials, and plead their cases. Kaufmann says this set-up means that Rosovsky will be able to calculate how much extra tuition departmental requests would require, and thus choose how to increase or cut personnel allocations more informedly...
...SHORT RANGE, the Faculty has "crawled out of a financial hole," as Kaufmann puts it. But inflation, as always, darkens the horizon, and the future looks worse, not better. "We assumed that if we worked hard to save money for four or five years we could begin to recover with the help of the national economy," Kaufmann says. "But here we sit looking at a 13 per cent inflation rate." He compares his position to a doctor who keeps running tests on a sick patient to discover what's wrong, and each new test fails to work, until he begins...
...only test left for the Faculty--and one that officials have looked to with ever greater hope--is the five-year, $250 million capital campaign, set to "kick-off" in October. Most of the money from the campaign will go directly into the Faculty's endowment. But Kaufmann cautions, "people can't look at the capital campaign as a panacea. In fact, if inflation keeps up we may find ourselves in 1985 in the same constricted circumstances we were...