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Under the terms of the 1977 document, the two schools had a joint fund for soliciting donations from post-1976 graduates. But, in July, Harvard President Derek C. Bok and former Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner announced that they will now fundraise separately. Their rationale: Two separate funds will help boost donations from recent graduates...
Wilson, who replaced Matina S. Horner last week, should be a lot more accessible to undergraduates than Bok is, probably because she has a lot more free time...
Throughout the long, 16-month search process to find a successor to Matina Horner, a debate raged over whether the new president should be an experienced administrator or a feminist scholar: Should Radcliffe continue to reduce its role in the lives of women undergraduates, or is it time for a change of direction? Is it, instead, time for Radcliffe to take on the role of advocate for women's issues within the University...
True, the Radcliffe presidency is not invested with any direct influence in faculty hiring decisions. And that lack of a defined role was one of Horner's excuses for not using her position in the faculty to visibly support women faculty members...
...dean in the college--a position assured the Radcliffe president in the 1977 non-merger merger agreement--and the supposed leader of the women's undergraduate community, Horner could have forged a new role for herself, and Radcliffe, within the Harvard administration. She chose not to. Wilson has already indicated plans to do the same...