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...federal arena, however, the colleges' relationship is 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...
...basic feeling, as officials both in Cambridge and Washington relate, is that women's colleges have no reason to lobby by themselves. "I don't think they have any unique issues," Schmidt says, adding quickly that "if they did, we'd be happy to do something." Thomas Wolanin, staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Post-secondary Education, says that his staff "assumes that women's colleges have no unique problems different from independent colleges or higher education as a whole...
...some Washington lobbyists sharply disagree, saying that women's colleges--mostly small four-year institutions on the eastern seaboard--are getting trampled on. "The federal run of things is complicated enough so that specific interests are being lost," says Donna L. Shavlik, associate director of the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. Marcia K. Sharp '68, director of the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based amalgam of 67 single-sex institutions, agrees with Shavlik's assessment. The coalition, says Sharp, needs "to spearhead a better understanding of what the positive elements" of women...
...colleges. Helen Karnovsky, special assistant to Harris and HEW's liaisons with women's colleges, says. "If they have a personal relationship, that helps," Karnovsky adds. While federal officials do not normally think of women's colleges as lobbyists, "President Horner is listened to as an individual," Joy Simonson, director of the National Advisory Council on women's Education, says. In essence, stature opens the path...
Recently, however, the Women's College Coalition (WCC) has emerged as the "only unified voice" for women's colleges. The WCC, founded in 1972 as a project of the Association of American Colleges, functions both as an information source and an advocate for single-sex education, director Sharp explains. In the past year, however, its scope has expanded past what one Washington lobbyist labels "pure public relations." Last month, for example, the WCC sponsored a day-long conference in Washington which brought together a variety of HEW officials and women's college presidents, including Horner. Following an opening address from...