"Keep going. Keep going," Rudenstine says emphatically when asked what he intends to do about the shortfall. "If you don't do it in five years, you do it in 10."

So while the quest for cash may have officially finished, he plans to continue fundraising. And there's no sign he'll stop once the 40-professor goal has been achieved. Rudenstine says he would eventually like to see 50 to 100 professorships added.

Rebuilding Radcliffe

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Ever since Radcliffe College merged with Harvard last October, the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has been working to become fully integrated into the University. Rudenstine is spearheading this effort.

The comprehensive search for the Institute's first permanent dean--led by Rudenstine himself--comes at the beginning of the Institute's efforts to fund and hire its own faculty.

Rudenstine says one of his major goals this semester is to have the Institute up and running smoothly. During the long months of secretive merger negotiations, students clamored for input, voicing their concerns that women's voice on campus was diminishing.

Now Rudenstine, along with the new dean, must shape the new Radcliffe in such a way that retains the support of female students worried that Harvard will not consider women's needs in the manner Radcliffe College did.

Whomever he chooses must find a delicate balance between those students and individuals that sought Radcliffe's end as a college, saying it was no longer needed.