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Among the unforeseen events, Kothavala said, are the financial squeeze and a trend towards professionalization in undergraduate science education. A shortage of $7 million in the fund of theProgram for Science in Harvard College prevented the construction of a $13 million biology-chemistry building and forced the director of the Science Center to be a financial manager and fund-raiser rather than an educator, he said...
...Peterson said, Harvard received an anonymous grant to search for and finance undergraduates from disadvantaged groups. The beneficiaries of this program were at first mostly sons of white blue-collar families. Theprogram was nicknamed the "Gamble Fund...
...expected of any new-born academic entity, the fledgling department has encountered problems. "The major problem has been coordinating courses to establish coherence within the program," Guinier said. "Because the department is so young, tremendous gaps exist in theprogram in terms of what we should be offering...