Word: developing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Harvard opportunities opened to women. But she insists the fog has been clearing since the 1977 agreement with Harvard which specifically defined and enlarged Radcliffe's role in policymaking and gave the Radcliffe Corporation financial autonomy. With guidelines established and financial independence achieved, Radcliffe is now free to develop new programs to enrich the lives of undergraduate women, she says. In short, she believes Radcliffe is on the rebound...
Apparently, the work is at its grittiest now. For Radcliffe, financial independence means the freedom to develop some of the programs which suffered from 1971 to 1977, years Harvard had control of the purse strings. But financial freedom entails responsibility, too, and the Board is now saddled with the obligation of raising its own funds for endowment and capital improvement...
...then there was salmonella. University Health Services "put the matter under intensive investigation," as assistant director Dr. Sholem Postel said, but cases continued to develop...
...voted overwhelmingly to continue the program for eight years--a resounding show of confidence. But the study of the program turned up one disappointment: the expectations for the pace of change in the regular curriculum were too high. The associates did not succeed very well in their efforts to develop women's studies interests among regular faculty members. The associates have offered courses in Hindu goddesses, black female notions of Christ and the legal status of women under traditional Jewish marria laws, but one critic points out, "You could go all the way through the Divinity School and never...
Early in February, Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, recommended, as Allison had previously suggested, setting up an ad hoc committee of students and faculty to study the Engelhard controversy and develop guidelines for accepting gifts and naming facilities. The committee was plagued by internal rifts, with two of its members dropping out, but it did release tentative guidelines on April 11--the same day 300 demonstrators called for the library to be named after Steven Biko, the slain leader of the South African Black Consciousness Movement...