Huidekoper says, for example, that if the University had strictly adhered to its plan of five years ago, much less money would have gone to the now-hot field of information technology.
"You don't want to predict too much," she says. "You don't want to limit your opportunities."
Likewise, Rudenstine remarks that Harvard did not become the educational colossus it is today by playing it safe.
"If President [Charles W.] Eliot [Class of 1853] hadn't decided to turn a small college into a large university, we'd be Oberlin," he says.
The Faculty Voice
"When I came in 1986, 'University-wide' used to mean the vice presidents and the president, and a large number of administrators," says Dennis F. Thompson, associate provost.
Still, decision-making at the highest levels today is accomplished through a monthly deans' council, convened by Rudenstine.
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