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...Harvard education and after more than a year of speculation over its fate, Radcliffe College is no more. Radcliffe and Harvard announced yesterday that Radcliffe will relinquish its independence--and college title--and become the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study under the Harvard umbrella. Female students will no longer be admitted to Radcliffe College; instead they will join their male colleagues in direct admission to Harvard College. The Radcliffe seal on women's diplomas may well be a thing of the past come the graduation of the class of 2000. The long-awaited decision is the right one, acknowledging that...
While yesterday's announcement answered several questions and clearly puts Radcliffe on the road to a better-defined existence, there are still several issues to be addressed. Most important to students will be the fate of Radcliffe's several undergraduate programs, which under federal law can no longer be single-sex offerings. The Office of Career Services and Radcliffe should work carefully together to ensure that no opportunity for undergraduates--male or female--is lost as those programs are folded into the Harvard system. The fate of the Radcliffe Union of Students is a bit more uncertain; as Radcliffe...
Clenndenning, for instance, said she will no longer be a vice president, but instead will be a "dean of some kind." And March expects her official connections with undergraduates will cease and her role will be greatly restructured...
...added, "The best thing that could happen to us, in a way, is that they're no longer needed...
...rigorous role," Wilson said. She added that her 10-year term was "longer than I intended to stay when I came." Wilson's tenure will be the shortest of Radcliffe's seven presidents...