Word: shultz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, Shultz feels that the alumni colleges pull in a cross-section of alumni, "from J.V. football players to poets." "In all the years we've been in the alumni business," he says, "we've missed the common denominator--education...
...Shultz says the idea of the alumni college started floating around in the early 1940s, because it seemed "stupid not to use the University's academic facilities" to bring the alumni into the University community. At that time, however, he says the faculty and the administration weren't interested because they didn't feel comfortable with the alumni...
...Alumni were thought of as racoon-skin-capped, musket-carrying people who only showed up for football games--and thank God the stadium's across the river," he says. But that attitude changed with a new batch of senior faculty. Shultz adds, and when Dartmouth and Cornell started alumni programs the Harvard alumni office begn to work on a comprehensive proposal...
...committee gave the program a firm recommendation, and President Pusey, "who was very mellow" by his last year in office, agreed to it, Shultz recalls. "His attitude was, if you can talk the faculty into it, go ahead," he says...
...first program was offered in 1971, and it received double the number of applications the alumni office had expected. "The comments we got justified our theoretical base." Shultz says, and the alumni office's continuing education program became an established reality...