The campaign grew out of a two-year University-wide planning process in which the president, provost and deans of the University gathered to create academic plans for each of Harvard's schools.

In the process of mapping out a future for the University, Harvard officials decided its top priorities for the campaign to improve the University as a whole.

With new professorships and initiatives like the President's Fund, they aimed to create cross-faculty and international programs.

With campaign funds, FAS was able to increase the financial aid it offers undergraduates last fall.

Over the six years of the campaign, Harvard has begun to renovate many of its older buildings and construct new laboratories and offices around campus.

Specifically, the campaign means the millions of volumes in Harvard's largest library will be free of heat, humidity and sunlight.

The Widener Library renovation project, pegged at $52 million, will add air conditioning, a new sprinkler system, a new fire detection system and two new reading rooms to Widener.

The University has pledged to renovate Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and University Hall, rebuild the clock tower atop Memorial Hall and construct a home for its newly inaugurated center for Genomics and Proteomics.