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...Trustee who acknowledges the anomaly between the negative undergraduate perception of Radcliffe and the Board's insistence on its renewed vitality is Matina S. Horner, Radcliffe's president. "Before I became president, all I knew about Radcliffe was that as a teacher I got two sheets for grades at the end of the semester and all the grades for women went on one that said 'Radcliffe,'" she says. Horner believes Radcliffe's identity became even more confusing when coresidency was established in 1971, and as most Harvard opportunities opened to women. But she insists the fog has been clearing since...
...most important influence of Radcliffe on undergraduate life, according to Lyman, is Horner's increased clout in policymaking decisions since the 1977 clarifying agreement. "We (the Board) are all here to support her, and Matina is heard. She's got to be heard." Horner now sits in on many of Harvard's policymaking committees--but she's quick to distinguish between policy-and decision-making. "Policy's not day-to-day management," she notes, "but it's now clearer that Radcliffe is not under Harvard but has an equal responsibility for its students...
While Radcliffe College was celebrating its hundredth anniversary, its sixth president, Psychologist Matina Horner, 39, cited these observations as a low-water mark against which to measure Radcliffe's 100-year drive toward equality with Harvard. "The intriguing thing," says Horner, "is that we have been working out at the institutional level the very things that men and women are facing today in their relationships, such as power and control, autonomy and commitment, the clashing of priorities, and self-esteem...
...imagine Derek Bok holding open office hours two days a week. (Matina Horner does.)Or the fate of a group of Harvard students wishing to address a meeting of the Harvard Board of Trustees. (Radcliffe's trustee meetings are open to students, who may address them on any matter they choose.) Radcliffe's organizational style makes Harvard's look positively paranoid: Clearly, the presence within the University of such an accessible institution should only be abandoned with some forethought...
President Matina Horner and several other Radcliffe administrators together presented "a kaleidoscopic view" of Radcliffe during its centennial year...