"Some of what you are seeing as a rise in administrative expense is actually a shift in expense from the academic programs," he says. "It represents more support for the programs."
"The focus of Radcliffe IT endeavors is the academic programs," Kuhn says.
Kuhn also notes that while Radcliffe as a whole can afford to hire an IT expert like himself, no individual academic program would be able to do so, and that Radcliffe's IT program operates on lower costs per computer than other IT departments at Harvard.
As Radcliffe's rate of increase of administrative expenses outstrips its increase in educational expenditures, the firings which accompanied last year's reorganization of the college have made some funds newly available.
The Office of the Dean of Radcliffe College, which received $313,768 from the educational budget in FY 1995, has been eliminated.
Radcliffe Career Services (RCS), which was also closed under the restructuring, received $415,484 in FY 1995 from Radcliffe's public policy budget.
Chamberlin says the money formerly allocated to the dean's office will go to the office of undergraduate programs, which was newly created under the reorganization.
RCS's budget "is being reallocated throughout our educational programs," she says.
But Chamberlin states that the reorganization has neither cost nor saved Radcliffe any money. When the restructuring of the college was first announced last fall, Radcliffe officials said that its purpose was to redirect Radcliffe's capital to its students.
"Reframing was not driven to raise money," Chamberlin says. "Reframing was mission directed."