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...shadow of Stanford's business school looming large over Harvard's prestige may also have motivated Bok's report. MBA magazine has granted Stanford a higher academic rating than Harvard in its last two polls on business school quality. Although such polls always raise doubts, some of Bok's suggestions for the B-School--especially his eagerness for the school to do more research--hint that Bok may want Harvard to move a few degrees away from its management-training emphasis toward Stanford's academic research approach. Although Stanford's reputation for academic excellence has improved in recent years, Harvard...
Radcliffe's charter of 1894 mandates that the corporation work to provide a Harvard education for undergraduate women. Although this objective was certainly top priority in the late 1800's, the charter also included a second objective: to promote higher education for women in general. As Radcliffe came close to achieving the first mandate, the second stirred from its over 50-year sleep. Subsequently, the Radcliffe Board has focused in the past 20 years on many programs designed primarily for women who have already received bachelors degrees...
Eight hundred Radcliffe alumnae and guests sang "Happy Birthday" to Radcliffe as weekend festivities kicked off the year-long celebration of Radcliffe's centennial. President Horner said Radcliffe must continue "to provide the opportunity for higher education to women at Harvard and to promote women's higher education everywhere...
...real opposition to the proposal, like many others, stems from his "conviction that one of the great strengths of higher education lies in its diversity." Bok has visions of the United States' uniquely independent system of education slowly being eroded under the influence of such a department. One of the major tenets of Bok's philosophy of education in his belief in an almost sacred split between the state and its schools. In Bok's words, a growing body of federal regulations are "beginning to creep very close to those key academic functions which really matter--the size...
Even if the department is created, however, opponents believe it will be dominated by public, elementary and secondary education interests. Many, including the outspoken Sen. Daniel P. Monyihan (D-N.Y.) predict higher education--slated to receive one of every three dollars in the new department's budget--will take a beating under the new system. The post-secondary sector currently accounts for 40 to 50 per cent of federal funds allocated for education, but the inclusion of overseas dependent schools for 135,000 Americans in the Department promises to severely drain available resources...