Word: cott
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...just happened that at Yale there was the critical mass that was necessary," says Nancy F. Cott. chairman of the women's studies department at Yale. The groundwork for the department was laid with the first women's studies courses in 1969, just after Yale went co-educational. For the next few years, student-faculty committees met to discuss a formal program, and in 1979 a women's studies program was introduced, which was not yet able to grant degrees. Cott calls the program "something of an anomaly," but she adds. "We always saw it as heading for a major...
...Cott says the emergence of this "critical mass" was crucial. "The essential feature is to have a substantial number of faculty members interested in teaching women's studies." Cott describes an academic snowballing process, in which as the program got increasing support. "The more institutional credibility it achieved." Once regular departments realized the program was going to catch on, they began to offer more courses in their own departments that would count towards a women's studies major. Cott says...
...negotiating now with many companies about sponsoring the show, and I hope to have things definitely worked out by mid-February so we can finalize booking the band." Urfirer said yesterday. He has consulted such companies as Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, Cott Beverages, Canada Dry, Tech Hi-Fi, McDonalds's and E.F. Hutton. Urfirer said he hopes to find a single backer for the concert, but may resort to multiple underwriters to divide the expenses...