Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagor left the division of research grants at the National Endowment for Humanities in the summer of 1976 for a "self-supported sabbatical" in Martha's Vineyard, where she read and wrote. At the time of the Harvard-Radcliffe agreement, Reagor was doing research in Cambridge; and subsequently through her acquaintances in the administration landed a job as director of the forum. She had never before dealt with women's issues alone, but feels it is important for all women to consider these questions at some point in their lives...
President Horner cites the 1977 agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe as a means of ensuring equal access for women to a Harvard education, but adds that equal access itself should not be viewed as an end, but "as a means of going beyond what has been done." To Horner, the big question for Radcliffe today is: "Are we looking at equal access and opportunity as an ends or a means?" As a historical example, Norner points out, "People were so exhausted in the effort of gaining suffrage that it became an end." Women did not use their newly-won suffrage...
Susan L. Comstock '78, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), says she is pleased with the 1977 agreement, but hesitates to make final judgments on its effects, particularly on Radcliffe undergraduates. Comstock says, "The Radcliffe Forum is yet to be tested in the kind of role it will play in a typical Harvard women's life." Comstock praises the forum's commitment to a broad range of activities, but fears undergraduates may be neglected by the forum, as they were by the defunct Office of Women's Education...
According to the 1977 agreement, "Undergraduates admitted to and subsequently enrolled in Radcliffe will thereby be enrolled, in accordance with present practice, in Harvard College with all the rights and privileges accorded Harvard College enrollment." Therefore, Comstock feels, women should get the same financial aid and work-study opportunities...
...very frustrating for a student who has only four years here to see things change so slowly," she says, adding, "I wish it was more clear what women students here feel." Steps toward finding out exactly what Radcliffe students feel have begun already. The 1977 agreement created the Office of Institutional Policy Research on Women's Education, which Director Susan M. Bailey says is "charged with informing, not making, policy on issues of particular relevance to women in the University." For example, the office will examine questions such as women's experiences in various concentrations," Bailey adds...