Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Kenneth M. Cuthburtson Vice-President of Development Kenneth M. Cuthburtson. Vice-President of Development. has the overwhelming and ambitious task of planning for the entire gift and pledge procurement program for Stanford University— In essence. Cuthburtson is the mastermind behind the staff and volunteer organizations currently engaged in the intensive 5-year $300 million fund-raising drive. As of December 1975, the campaign had passed the $213 million mark with two years still remaining in achieving the target goal. The University is not only dependent upon gifts which can be expended soon after they are received, but also on the addition of gifts to the endowment which builds up the longterm reserves for the University. The endowment is in turn invested, with the resulting income effectively utilized by the University in countless ways. Three or four years before the campaign. stated Cuthburtson. “we were raising over $30 million annually. From our long-range planning, we figured we would require over $50 million a year. In addition to fulfilling our financial goals, our campaign will result in an on-going upward trend in support. We haven’t received a $40 million gift receipt for a single year as of yet, but we may before our remaining two years are up. The main thrust of the $300 million campaign is to raise funds for: 1) A new research addition to the Main Library. The library is the very heart of the University, commented Cuthburtson. And we’re very far behind in providing the adequate facilities. The plan calls for $20 million. $7 million of which has already been raised. The Board of Trustees has been asked to allocate the funds to begin the architectural plans and to go to bid. If the fund-raising and plans are completed by 1976, the addition may immediately go into construction. 2) Renovation of the Main Quad. The multi-story buildings of the Main Quad are being rebuilt with a new steel or reinforced concrete structure from inside for added stability against earthquakes. Renovation costs are equal to the costs involved in building a completely new structure. 3) Endowed student aid, fellowship funds, and scholarship funds, and 4) Faculty support, in the form of special endowment and endowed professorship. Building projects already underway are being financed in part by the campaign: the Termin Engineering Center, across from the Student Publications building, completion of the Law School buildings, a new chemistry building beyond the old chemistry center, and the Fairchild Center at the Stanford Medical Center for the advancement of the neurosciences. . 6 The most rewarding experience for Cuthburtson during his 21-year career at the University was the work done toward receiving a very large grant from the Ford Foundation — a $25 million challenge grant which encouraged the University to match the grant with $75 million. At that time, a study was conducted placing Stanford’s graduate program at the top of the second 12 top graduate schools in the country. Cuthburtson remarked. We were at the top of the second rank, as compared to other established institutions such as Harvard, Yale. Princeton. and the like. In a recent ranking. Stanford's graduate program has been ranked third after Harvard and Berkeley. In one way or another, all areas of the University are indebted to Cuthburtson for his unceasing efforts.

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Sally Mahoney Registrar According to Registrar Sally Mahoney, the reinstitution of the D grade during the 1975-76 academic year is a boon to the haried. grade-obsessed under-grads. Having served as a major resource for the Committee on Academic Appraisal and Achievement as an ex-officio member of subsequent discussions and sub-committees. Ms. Mahoney found the strongest expression in favor of the D grade to be that it will make all other grades more respectable and credible.” Ms. Mahoney commented. ”1 don't expect many D grades to be awarded, but rather that the heavy concentration of grades in the A and B range might be broadened over the A, B. and C range if a lower grade existed. “The D grade allows a student more options, she added. It will permit the student to pass at a lower level than with the previous ‘C-as-lowest' standard. For instance, if a student needs a course to graduate and he needs a passing grade — but is doing marginally worse than a C. although not flunking — he may pass with a D grade.” As both Registrar and Associate Provost. Mahoney directs registration, is responsible for records of all students in the University, and administers regulations regarding the academic standing of undergraduates. She maintains the file of all courses offered by the University and consequently derives the proper information for classroom scheduling. The student data center is a service provided by the registrar’s office to aid admissions, financial aids, and the monitoring of student progress by the deans of graduate and undergraduate studies. Under the auspices of the Provost. Ms. Mahoney helped to set up an innovative 4-year pilot program that permits undergraduates over 25 years of age to attend Stanford on a part-time basis. The program admits 25 new students a year who qualify for admission in all other respects, but are over 25 and need to study less than full-time. Similarly, another group of part-time students who had previously attended the University but had left for various reasons. will be admitted. University policy maintains that students who have left the school in good standing may return any subsequent quarter — regardless of the amount of time which has elapsed — without formal petition. One of the things we’ll be interested in determining, stated Ms. Mahoney, “is whether the majority of the people taking advantage of the option will turn out to be women.” Relating her impressions of today’s students, Ms. Mahoney commented. Students are now very hardworking and very much aware of the value and cost of the University. This concern, as faced by the stu-I dent as well as the faculty member, is a topic which shapes the discourse among us. This mutual sense of cost and its resulting benefits is a concern which I haven’t seen before so strongly expressed by students. 25

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W. Glenn Campbell Director, Hoover Institution Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War. Revolution, and Peace has quickly become the nation’s first influential conservative think tank. The Institution has currently had an impact on national domestic policy with many proposals by Hoover scholars being favorably mentioned by Ford Administration officials. The Institution's move into domestic research, and inevitably into political brain-trusting, came in 1960 when W. Glenn Campbell became director. The Hoover Institution has long been the nation’s major academic storehouse of documents on 20th century political, social, and economic movements. The library, housed in Hoover Tower, includes six principal area collections: Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Russia). Latin America, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Holdings include books, pamphlets, government documents, and newspapers and periodicals, as well as the private papers of prominent individuals. The Institution has its own resident research staff of economists, political scientists, and historians that includes both visiting and resident scholars. Research programs focus on basic research, documentary, and policy, studies in both international and domestic areas. Campbell, himself a conservative economist, concedes to the political conservatism of the Institution. But he insists, ‘We only look conservative when compared to the rest of the Stanford community, which is basically liberal. He added, We have no party line on research. Campbell’s skillful recruitment of such traditionally liberal scholars as philosopher Sidney Hooks and former Harvard sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset attests to this fact. Left: W. Glenn Campbell with Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 27