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...exuberant but messy Spring Weekend celebration was drawing to a close, an unusual clean-up crew went into action on the campus green of Brown University. Its members were not maintenance workers but volunteers from the student body-led by a tweedy man with a professional air: Howard Swearer, 50, Brown's 15th president. If, at that moment, Swearer was not the only U.S. college president stooping to such a mundane task, he may have been one of the enviable few whose cooperative posture was producing positive results...
Facing these problems, the university in 1976 hired Swearer, a political scientist by educational background and a seasoned administrator with six years behind him as the budget-balancing president of Carleton College in Minnesota. Swearer put together a team that brought Brown back into the black. Today, endowment stands at a healthy $144 million, the faculty is first rate, and student recruiting programs seem to have yielded rich dividends. This year the admissions committee was exultant over the quality of the 12,000 applicants for Brown's 1,360 freshman openings. The yield rate, the number of accepted students...
...Swearer is both modest and cautious about Brown's success so far: "You have to give credit to a large number of people." But his chief financial aide, Senior Vice President Richard Ramsden, believes that management programs have helped steer Brown out of trouble. "We wanted Brown to be known as one of the best-managed institutions of higher education in the U.S." Broad faculty, and even student, support was enlisted for these programs. When Swearer in 1978 embarked upon a $158 million capital fund drive, instead of asking the faculty where it could cut back, he asked where...
...rally was held in support of the resolution the second day of voting, on the university's main green Students, faculty, and one Rhode Island State legislator addressed a crowd of about 400. University President Howard Swearer made a surprise appearance to speak in favor of the referendum's proposal Swearer said he hoped "this widespread public movement would signal our elected representatives about the need for nuclear arms control...
...Swearer stated that the criteria for inclusion in Division 1-A should not include financial factors such as "average paid attendance and stadium size." He added that the Ivy League's committment to football is "unmatched by any other NCAA conference...