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This spring, after 16 years as Radcliffe president, Horner announced that she is resigning. Although she will continue her duties in the coming academic year, a new president will take over her post in July. Many are saying that her resignation marks the end of an era--a time of rapid change that saw the nearly entire integration of Harvard and Radcliffe's student body along with the expansion of the college's many resesarch programs...
During her tenure as president of Radcliffe College, Horner created the Murray Research Center, the Bunting Institute to support female scholars, and she expanded the Schlesinger Library for women's studies. Many credit her with turning Radcliffe into the foremost research institute for the study of women's issues and for making these inquiries accepted by the Harvard community...
...those actions pale before Horner's negotiation of the "non-merger merger" agreement in 1977 that united the housing and admissions policy of Harvard and Radcliffe. Horner herself believes that this agreement is her first and foremost achievement. "Our success in having an equal access admissions policy has really changed the nature and quality of education here," she said, adding those reforms have made "coeducation really viable...
Some students and scholars have criticized Horner for stressing Radcliffe's graduate programs since the 1977 merger, saying she has done so at the expense of undergraduates. They say that Radcliffe is a largely forgotten part of women's undergraduate life and that its few services--like the alumni externships the college sponsors--only serve to separate women from their male peers...
...When Horner, the daughter of Greek immigrants, first arrived at Harvard, she was one of only three women on the Harvard's faculty. She said that after her first lecture several male students approached her, saying they had come to her class not because they were interested in psychology but because they had never heard a woman professor speak before and wanted to find out if she could be articulate...