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Enrollment at the Divinity School has shot up about 40 percent since 1979, helping ease the budget crunch by bringing in more tuition money. But Rupp and other officials say they are sensitive to the fact that the 168-year-old school--the oldest grad school at Harvard--must hustle to keep enrollment rising...
...Rupp and others say they are confident that Harvard remains the best divinity school in the country. "[We are] the only theological school in the country that has the highest intellectual standards and also is committed to prepare people for ministry," says Rupp...
...pool nationwide for people going into ministry or theological education is certainly not growing. We've been fortunate in getting an in creasingly larger slice of a not-so-growing pie." Rupp says, adding that "I don't think we are under any enrollment pressures here at the moment. We've worked hard to avoid having that happen...
Despite the steady growth in enrollment. Rupp says the school simply must boost its endowment to insure that the quality of the programs doesn't slip. Toward that goal, the school will begin a major fundraising program later this year...
...Rupp emphasizes that the fundraising effort will not operate on the strict timetable of a normal capital campaign--"It will be an ongoing effort to generate funds, rather than a campaign with a timeline and it set goal. The reason for that is that the Harvard constituency is, for easily understandable reasons, not ready for another endowment fund. They're just barely going to be getting out from under a major effort to raise $350 million...