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...waste of money in any sense, but it is a disorderly way of budgeting it," says Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finance and administration, who oversees budget-making every year. There's more guesswork in the preparation of the Faculty budget than you might expect if you judged from the neat tables and rows of figures that emerge at year...
...make crucial financial decisions based on fuzzy guesses about the inflation rate a year and a half from now. "I sit here in September with a budget of $50 million and I have very little control over that budget--all I can do is monitor and manage crises," Kaufmann says...
...Kaufmann says the savings that have balanced the budget occurred in "marginal" areas, and potential savings were always weighed against the inconveniences to students and professors. A plan to end hot breakfasts in all but a few Houses last year, for example, created such an uproar it was withdrawn. "I don't think students are as interested in the marginal $20 or $50 savings on an $8000 bill as they are in the quality of life," Kaufmann says. So officials have so far avoided introducing money-saving measures like requiring pre-registration for courses or abolishing second servings at meals...
...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...