Radcliffe has decided, for example, not to replace former controller and director of budgets at Radcliffe College Atlas D. Evans, who left the Institute in September.

According to Armini, the communications office has also shrunk in recent years. The office employed 10 and a half full-time staffers in 1996, but now has only 7 and a half such positions.

While Armini says the communications office has merely experienced non-merger related turn-over, his own old job--media relations officer--was eliminated when he was promoted to director of communications this summer.

"The question now is can we continue to do a great job with fewer people?" Armini says. "I think we can. Maybe the days will be a little bit longer. But there can be a benefit to having a leaner operation."

And as Radcliffe wraps up its seven-year long, $100-million capital campaign, its die-hard fundraisers might move on to other non-profits that are still in the throes of a major campaign.

Three members of the Radcliffe Development Office have in fact recently departed, including Joanna N. Brode, who had served as interim director of development for a year.

"As a campaign winds down, the head-hunters come out of the woodwork," says Brode, who now serves as director of individual giving at MIT's Whitehead Institute. Brode herself cites personal reasons for leaving what she calls a "wonderful experience" at Radcliffe.