Ed. School Fund Drive Tops Goal
Harvard University's graduate school of education has raised more than $111 million with its first comprehensive capital campaign. The amount, which school officials said last week was the largest sum ever raised by a U.S. school of education from private and public sources, far surpassed the original goal of $60 million.
"It was so successful because we were able to get some very wealthy people to come to the school, and they saw what we really do," Dean Jerome T. Murphy said last week, adding that he was "stunned" at the campaign's success. "They really got turned on by our projects and our values."
The money raised in combined personal gifts and research awards includes $51 million in new endowment funds. Research awards included a $1 million endowment from Good Samaritan, Inc. for research on higher education issues and $450,000 from the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. to support a...
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