A dean could do a lot with a billion dollars.
Although Harvard administrators have been wholly focused on fundraising for more than half a decade, now that the University has surpassed its $2.1-billion goal they can invest their time and energy into turning some of their visions for their schools into realities.
Wednesday, in New York, Harvard announced that it has raised $2.325 billion over the last five years, rocketing past its original goal.
And already, much of the money taken in during the Capital
Campaign has been put to use at Harvard.
Improved financial aid packages, building construction and renovation, academic initiatives and new professorships were at the top of every school's agenda five years ago. And recently, they have begun to materialize.
Before the campaign was launched, each of Harvard's nine schools developed long-range academic plans outlining their wish lists for the
future. With money rolling in every year, bits and pieces of the plans are already visible to Harvard students and researchers.
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