Word: rupp
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...specific goal exists for the drive, but Rupp says he would like to see the endowment grow to $60 million. "If our endowment were now $60 million instead of $40 million, we would be in healthy shape," says the dean...
While the Divinity School grapples with its pressing financial problems, it has also confronted major academic changes during the last several years. Rupp's philosophy of what the Divinity School should be relates to fundamental problems in the world at large: the emergence of a worldwide community and the struggle for world understanding...
...Rupp's mission for the school meshes "out double capacity to represent a particular religious community effectively and at the same time relate it positively to other religious traditions and to the broader society...
...project is designed to promote the development of a community of scholars who collaborate across traditional disciplinary divisions to clarify similarities and differences among traditions of social values," says Rupp, "and to reflect on the policy implications of those similarities and differences...
...while the school continues to grow in many directions, the central obstacle to a rosy future remains the shortage of money. Rupp makes no bones about the school's rough times. "I think there's a case to be made that we are the poorest school at Harvard. I think that between the Design School, the Graduate School of Education and the Divinity School, you could argue about which is the worst have-not." The challenge to the school, Rupp adds, is to attract the donations and keep down expenses, to insure that the school can continue to grow...