Philanthropy Sweepstakes and overhauling the Divinity School’s An- According to the Council for Advance- dover Hall, including an addition, sched- ment and Support of Education’s Volun- Brevia uled to begin this summer. tary Support of Education survey, chari- table giving to higher education totaled Medical School Money Matters $46.7 billion in fiscal year California’s Kaiser Per- 2018, up 7.2 percent from manente healthcare the prior year. Harvard, system is launching a Stanford, and Columbia medical school aimed each realized more than $1 at training doctors for billion. In total, they and integrated-care teams the seven other most suc- (the model it practices); cessful fundraising institu- it will waive tuition for tions (UCLA, University of the first five student co- California San Francisco, horts.…New York Uni- Johns Hopkins, Penn, the versity, which raised aid University of Washing- funds to make its medi- ton, USC, and Yale) re- cal school tuition-free ceived more than $8.4 bil- last year, is inaugurating lion: about 18 percent of a second school, on Long total giving that year, de- Island, to train primary- rived from reports from 929 care physicians—again, respondent institutions.… with full-tuition schol- Emulating their U.S. peers, inter- CORPORATION AND OVERSEER COHORT: Timothy arships.…Yale School of Med- national universities that recent- R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino icine announced that its “unit (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected fellows of the ly received landmark gifts include Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. Barakett, a native loan” (the amount students McGill, in Montréal ($151 million of Canada who founded and led a large hedge fund for 15 are expected to borrow before for full master’s and professional- years, is now a private investor and philanthropist. He receiving need-based scholar- degree scholarships), and Cam- held leadership roles in The Harvard Campaign, focusing ships) will be reduced from particularly on undergraduate financial aid. Cuéllar, a bridge, in the United Kingdom native of Mexico, moved with his family to California at $23,000 to $15,000 per year for all ($130.5 million, for graduate and age 14. He earned an M.A. in political science from students attending in the 2019- undergraduate scholarships).… Stanford; a J.D. (Yale); and a Ph.D. in political science 2020 academic year and there- (Stanford). He is a member of the Board of Overseers, And Johns Hopkins, fresh off a and has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of after; the new debt expectation $1.8-billion gift from Michael R. California since 2015. Details are available at harvard- is half the level required two Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, LL.D. ’14 mag.com/barakett-cuellar-19. years ago. Harvard Medical (not in the tallies above; see Brevia, As they succeed Susan L. Graham ’64 and Jessica School’s posted unit loan this Tuchman Mathews ’67, the Corporation loses some January-February, page 27), has gender diversity, but gains international representation. year was $33,950 for current agreed to buy the Newseum site, And Barakett replenishes some of the fundraising students; those who graduated near the U.S. Capitol, in Wash- prowess that departed last year when Joseph J. in 2018 had an average medical ington, D.C., for a reported $372.5 O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, concluded his service. debt of $110,548. On March 1, Separately, City Year co-founder and CEO Michael million, to house its School of Ad- Brown ’83, J.D. ’88, and Lesley Friedman Rosenthal ’86, HMS dean George Q. Daley an- vanced International Studies and J.D. ’89, The Julliard School’s chief operating officer, will nounced a new aid formula that other nearby graduate programs. be the Board of Overseers’ president and vice chair of does away with the unit loan, the executive committee in academic year 2019-2020. Bloomberg was reported to have subtracts the expected family helped support the purchase and contribution from tuition and planned renovations into 400,000 square tion of the Sackler Building, formerly part fees, and should, over time, reduce entering feet of academic space. of the art museums, for the history of art students’ debt upon graduation by $16,000 and architecture department, the Graduate from the prior $110,000-plus. The new for- More Bricks and Mortar School of Design, and new art-maker spac- mula will apply to all students receiving The University’s 2018 Town Gown Report, to es; and the Radcliffe Institute’sSchlesing - aid, effective in the fall term, with funding Cambridge, released in January, envisions er Library renovation. Notable new work guaranteed for their four years of study. further campus construction, beyond such includes renovating and expanding (out- mega-projects as the continuing House re- ward and upward, with a new fifth floor) Gender Equity: The University newal and completion of the engineering the Law School’s Lewis International Law On April 2, as this issue went to press, the and applied sciences complex in Allston. Center; renovating Harvard Hall, to up- University held its first“Harvard Hears Among the jobs wrapping up are renova- grade classrooms and restore the exterior; You: The 2019 Summit for Gender Eq- Photographs courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications Harvard Magazine 29 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL uity,” coinciding with the beginning of a gramming to “advance an inclusive learn- (on debt remaining, other new iteration of the Association of Ameri- ing environment,” according to its charge. uses of the proceeds—to can Universities’ sexual-conduct climate augment the endowment survey. University officials spoke during Nota Bene or support research, per- events at Smith Campus Center. A celeb- Applications—and costs—increase. The haps—or prospective im- rity panel at Memorial Church—focusing College received 43,330 applications to provements in operating MITCHELL/HPAC STEPHANIE on popular culture, advertising, and con- the class of 2023, up 1.4 percent from the results) have not yet been George Q. sumerism, according to a University an- prior year, and admitted 1,950. Before tak- forthcoming. Daley nouncement—featured actress and trans- ing financial aid into account, the hopefuls gender-awareness advocate Laverne Cox. face a higher sticker price for the privilege: Beyond a liFetime oF giving. David Rock- the term bill will be $69,607, up 3 percent efeller ’36, G ’37, LL.D. ’69, a towering Uni- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: from $67,580 in the current academic year. versity citizen, launched the eponymous The College Peer schools reported receiving more ap- center for Latin American studies and, in The College announced that it has merged plicants, too—and also breached the 2008, made a $100-million gift to fund study its office of equity, diversity, and inclusion $70,000 barrier with tuition, room, board, abroad and equip the Harvard Art Muse- with the Harvard Foundation for Intercul- and fees for 2019-2020 reaching $72,100 at ums with student study centers (see har- tural and Race Relations (long led by the Yale and comparable levels at Cornell and vardmag.com/drclas-08). His support for late S. Allen Counter). The new unit will elsewhere. Details are available at harvard- his most cherished institutions lasted be- report to an associate dean for inclusion mag.com/2023admits-19. yond his death in 2017. The proceeds from and belonging who is “charged with en- the estate sale of his collections produced suring that our programs and services are Middlebury Divests. In January, Mid- additional bequests, including $200 mil- responsive to the changing demographics dlebury College adopted its Energy2028 lion-plus to the Museum of Modern Art, and needs” of undergraduates, once that va- plan, envisioning a complete transition which named its directorship in his honor. cancy is filled. That officer will also oversee to renewable energy for campus electric- Harvard has received a further sum, too— the Title IX office, office of BGLTQ student ity and thermal power by that year; a 25 likely benefiting undergraduate education life, and women’s center.…The foundation’s percent reduction in campus energy con- and his other interests (details were not artist of the year, recognized at the Cultural sumption; progressive divestment of en- yet available at this issue went to press). Rhythms festival in March, was writer and dowment fossil-fuel investments (elimi- transgender activist Janet Mock.…The Col- nating them within 15 years, thus reversing Dining on high. The Heights, the tenth- lege has also organized a Working Group the decision not to divest made in 2013); floor restaurant at the Smith Campus on Symbols and Spaces of Engagement, un- and enhanced educational opportunities Center, began lunch service on March 4, der professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic for its entire community. followed by lounge/cocktail service (un- religion and cultures Ali Asani; it will ex- til midnight) as of March 26, with dinner amine campus spaces, symbols, and pro- Balancing the medical books. Harvard service to follow. Medical School dean George Q. Daley disclosed in his state of Miscellany. Stipends for Graduate School the school address that its sale of Arts and Sciences students will be in- of a long-term leasehold inter- creased 3 percent during the 2019-2020 est in 4 Blackfan Circle, effected academic year.…Deerfield Management last year for $272.5 million (see has committed $100 million to invest in the News Briefs, September-Octo- commercial development of biomedical ber 2018, page 21), had enabled and life-sciences inventions from Harvard HMS to pay off more than half laboratories; the Office of Technology De- its debt, “improving cash flow velopment (see “Accelerating Innovation,” and moving the school toward March-April, page 18) represented the Uni- a balanced budget.” Details versity in organizing the partnership.