The Writing Fellows Program has dropped the Rose family name from its official title and now receives funding from the Office of the Dean of the College after the gift supporting it ran out last spring. The program, previously known as the Rose Writing Fellows Program, began in 1982 and was funded by a gift from the Rose family.
Britt Harwood '09, assistant director of the program, told The Herald in an e-mail that the Office of the Dean of the College agreed to fund the program after the gift expired a year ago. Program Director Douglas Brown said the end of the gift came as no surprise.
"We saw it looming," he said.
Each fellow is paid $800 per semester, and most of the program's funding goes towards these payments, Brown said.
Though Harwood wrote that the program's operating budget has decreased from $200,000 to $110,000 annually, Brown wrote in an e-mail that the program is doing well under the new funding arrangement. "The news for the fellows is good, not bad," he wrote.
