University Challenges

In its BBC version, the television quiz show College Bowl is University Challenge. Now Harvard has its own University challenges. As part of the University Campaign, Rita E. Hauser, L '58, national Campaign cochair, and several other donors established in May a $15-million challenge fund to encourage philanthropy by women. It will match women's gifts of $25,000 to $250,000 toward any Campaign objective, and has already stimulated three $500,000 gifts to the Kennedy School and a fund to endow the School of Education's speaker series. Hauser, whose $5-million pledge anchored the challenge fund, says she found it "astounding" that women lag behind men in making major gifts to educational and other philanthropies, and wanted to encourage the recognition that "in this society, money is power to effectuate the changes you believe in."

At the same time, an anonymous donor established a $3-million challenge fund to match any gift to the Campaign for Radcliffe, which has now achieved two-thirds of its $100-million goal.