Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bringing the deans together led to the first University-wide academic planning process, in which each school took a look at its future and tried to figure out how to get there. The plans were expensive and gave rise to the first-ever University capital campaign, pegged at the stupefying goal of $2.1 billion. The campaign, which has met with astonishing success, has given the deans a common goal that they have been pursuing in concert for more than five years...
...remaining years of his presidency, he says he still has three goals left to accomplish: several building projects--the Widener library renovation and the construction of the Knafel center for government and international affairs--must be finished. A planning process examining information technology and distance learning must be completed. And Rudenstine plans to coordinate post-campaign academic planning with the deans. He also wants to make sure FAS' $200 million science initiative and the merger with Radcliffe continues to go smoothly...
...accordance to University procedure, protest organizers hope their actions will preserve the "democratic process" by providing an alternative to today's Commencement speaker...
Neil L. Rudenstine releases the president's annual report which focuses on diversity in higher education. Reaffirming his stated commitment to diversity, Rudenstine writes, "We need to remind ourselves that student diversity has, for more than a century, been valued for its capacity to contribute powerfully to the process of learning and to the creation of an effective educational environment...
...class of '99 receives the first totally randomized House assignments. The process results in severe gender imbalances; the most extreme is the rising sophomore class in Pforzheimer House, 70 percent of whom are male. Administrators say they will reinstate controls for gender in following years...