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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...
Wilson: Well, faculty meetings areplaces where faculty get up and advocate things,not presidents. When Matina Horner stands up at afaculty meeting she's standing up as a facultymember, not as a president. I would be veryinterested in learning more about the women'sstudies program and raising the status of women'sstudies...
Wilson: Well, Matina is a scholar in avery relevant field. I am not a scholar of thesame kind. I have tried to do as much writing andthinking as I could, but it has more of aninstitutional focus...I think Matina and I havemany things in common and some real differences. Iwill draw very deeply on her knowledge but I won'ttry to replicate...