Meanwhile, one of Fineberg's pet projects hangsin the lurch, the inter-faculty initiatives of theUniversity Fund.
But "Harvey Fineberg has taken this as hisgoal," says one Mass. Hall source, who addsFineberg will personally step in during this finalphase of the campaign to raise money for thelagging areas, including his cause.
The Rich and the Poor
Most of Harvard's schools are at or ahead ofthe campaign's progress as a whole.
FAS and Harvard Business School are keepingpace, having met 86 and 89 percent of their goals,respectively.
Meanwhile, the Divinity School and the GraduateSchool of Education--neither of which tend toproduce wealthy alums--lag behind the campaign asa whole at 76 and 83 percent of their goals,respectively.
The Law School met its goal in 1995 and hassince surpassed it by 21 percent.
Similarly, the Medical School, at 102 percent;the Kennedy School, at 103 percent, and the Schoolof Public Health (SPH), at 107 percent, havefinished and are adding gravy to their successes.
Like the schools of education and design, SPHhas traditionally been one of the least successfulschools for lack of wealthy alums, but thepopularity of the subjects studied at SPH, such asAIDS and children's issues, are luring Harvardalums from other schools.
"The basic advantage public health had was theissues it was working with," Fineberg says.
The Need
President Neil L. Rudenstine has said that FASwill make changes next fall to its evaluation ofstudent need during the financial aid process,changes that will probably cost millions.
These proposed changes make the FAS campaignall the more crucial. Harvard has long-pledged tomeet all demonstrated need, however, so gifts tofinancial aid essentially go to free unrestrictedgifts--those without explicit purposes binding theUniversity--to meet other FAS needs.
Development Communications Director AndyTiedeman cautions that the "need-blind" policycould become "too expensive for Harvard tomaintain," and says the push for funds is criticalfor the policy's long-run survival.
As the largely successful campaign enters itsfinal year, administrators say they remainconcerned that they will not meet all of theirgoals, but they are not giving up.
"I'm concerned," Rudenstine says. "[But] if wedon't make it at the end of the campaign, we'llkeep going."