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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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July 2, 2008
Claremont McKenna College Receives $75-Million Gift
Claremont McKenna College will use a $75-million donation for a building to house classrooms and offices, and to serve as a new gateway to the campus, the college announced on Tuesday.
The source of the gift is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation, which made the unrestricted donation three months into the college’s $600-million fund-raising campaign, which it describes as the largest ever undertaken by a liberal-arts college.
The building, to be called the Kravis Center, is scheduled for completion in 2010 and will include classrooms, research institutes, faculty offices, and the Office of Admission and Financial Aid. The building will incorporate sustainable design and “become both the literal and symbolic heart of our institution,” Claremont McKenna’s president, Pamela Gann, said.
Mr. Kravis, a founder of the private-equity firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, is a 1967 graduate of the college and member of its Board of Trustees. —Allie Grasgreen
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HARDLY ‘the largest fund-raising campaign ever undertaken by a liberal-arts college.” HARVARD COLLEGE, part of Harvard University, raises that much occasionally. . .
— William Allin Storrer Jul 2, 04:32 PM #
Not too many people I know consider Harvard a liberal arts college. Its basic Carnegie classification is “Research University.”
— J. Barton Jul 2, 05:17 PM #