Word: genderism
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APRIL 20, 1999 Harvard and Radcliffe announced that Radcliffe would be absorbed under the University's umbrella as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 120 years after it first brought women a Harvard education. Officials said the Institute would "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society." Under the proposed agreement, Radcliffe would be placed on an equal administrative footing with the University's nine faculties. Linda S. Wilson, Radcliffe's seventh and final president, announced that she would step down from her post in June. The fate of Radcliffe's undergraduate programs...
While the agreement will create a new researchinstitute that specializes in the study of gender,the University has not decided the fate oftraditional Radcliffe undergraduate offerings,such as externships, mentorships, fellowships andRUS offerings...
...Whatever happens, the College will maintainits principle that all Harvard programs should beopen to all Harvard students without regard totheir gender," he said...
...Institute will "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society," according to officials. However, leaders have said that issues of gender will not remain Radcliffe's exclusive focus. The ties that will bind the new interdisciplinary center together have yet to be determined exactly...
...graduation of the class of 2000. The long-awaited decision is the right one, acknowledging that Radcliffe is no longer a provider of undergraduate education (indeed, it has not been since at least 1977) and freeing the now Institute to focus solely on its mission of "studying women, gender and society" instead of wasting energy as an ill-defined 'college...