To help fund new projects not originally included in the campaign, the University may reallocate money to areas that now need attention.
"What you think of seven years ago are not, of course, precisely the goals of today," Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles said in an interview with The Crimson.
And no dean is ever quite satisfied, not even with $2.1 billion.
"We're in a state of permanent dissatisfaction at the Law School," Clark quipped in his comments to the assembled guests, echoing some of the other deans who spoke, in an attempt to explain the constant challenge of making ends meet.
In fact, the University puts its needs at closer to $4 billion. Before Rudenstine took over as president in 1991, the deans of each of Harvard's nine schools compiled a list of renovations, academic initiatives and other projects he wanted to complete in the near future: added together the sum is almost twice what Harvard has raised.
"When you ask the deans what they need, they always had more in mind," Fineberg told The Crimson.
For a large institution like Harvard, some administrators said, $2.335 billion is not that high a figure.
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