At the heart of the mission to improve teaching in FAS lies the drive to endow 40 new professorships. Although this goal has proved one of the most difficult for the University to meet, more than half of the positions have been paid for by alumni, at a cost of about $2.5 million each.

Not only have departments received additional teachers, as a result, but so have other fields and programs--like the Core curriculum and Harvard's various research centers.

At the same time, Knowles and Rudenstine are pushing to improve the material that students learn in their smaller classes.

Last winter, they unveiled a $200 million set of science initiatives, aimed at making Harvard home to cutting edge research in important scientific fields.

The biggest piece of the push for improving science research at Harvard is the FAS's launching of two new centers: one for the study of genomics and one for the study of mesoscale structures (minute objects).

Other centers throughout the University have also come into being as a result of the campaign. In particular, numerous programs that work with multiple Harvard schools have grown with campaign giving.

The Ethics and the Professions, Health Policy and Mind/Brain/Behavior programs have been put into place, while recent gifts have made centers such as the Carr Center for Human Rights possible.

And, Harvard administrators proudly point out, that the University is able to move ahead in the latest trend in higher education--internationalization.