Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and then member of a committee on the admissions and financial aid aspects of the merger, did not believe in hasty Faculty action either. He advised that all decisions on future relationships between Harvard and Radcliffe "be deferred until all considerations pro and con from both communities have been heard." Bunting also opposed the Faculty making a decisive statement on the merger. "It would be premature for this Faculty to take any action at this time that would limit the options," she warned...
...Faculty found the technical issues--such as financial aid and housing expansion--too confusing to discuss. Wilson recalls faculty members looking befuddled and finally declaring, "Well, that's an interesting idea," but Wilson says most didn't really understand what was involved, and asked to move on to something else...
...most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
...less clear cut. "I guess I represent only Harvard," says Parker L. Coddington, who as Harvard's director of government relations conducts a high proportion of the University's lobbying in Washington. While Coddington says that he has represented Radcliffe on some issues, particularly pertaining to federal student aid programs, there is no set pattern...
...Greece, but not at Byerly Hall, where in 1973, the Harvard and Radcliffe adminissions committees found themselves happily operating side by side under the same roof. They became so chummy that within little more than a year, they had merged into one Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions and Financial Aid in order to put into effect the new equal access policy...