Word: presidental
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A group of New England educational leaders, led by Rudenstine and Tufts University President John DiBiaggio, recently traveled to Washington to lobby legislators and White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not...
The campaign had taken in $2.01 billion as of Commencement exercises in June, leaving Harvard only $90 million short of its goal. Earlier in the campaign, President Neil L. Rudenstine put the campaign's fundraising pace at $1 million per day.
FAS lagged behind then as it does now, with $48 million left to raise in June of this year. Always sticking points, the libraries, the professorships and the president's special fund were hard sells.
The President's University Fund, for which the University is attempting to raise $235 million during the campaign, will sponsor University-wide professorships, project ADAPT and interfaculty initiatives. It lagged behind at the 59 percent mark in June 1998.
The campaign grew out of a two-year University-wide planning process in which the president, provost and deans of the University gathered to create academic plans for each of Harvard's schools.