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...appropriate thing" for Radcliffe to be doing, says Phillipa Bovet, associate dean of Radcliffe. President Horner speaks of using "the carrot," rather than the stick in working for more women's studies. She notes for example, that Radcliffe requires Harvard faculty members who apply for a Mellon Fellowship to present evidence of curricular innovation toward more women's studies in their courses. But Radcliffe has not vocally called for a women's studies concentration, not has it encouraged Radcliffe students who have applied for special concentrations in women's studies, none of which has ever been granted. Horner attributes...
...Mellon Foundation last week awarded a grant of $1.650,000 to Harvard University for a five year continuation of the Mellon Faculty Fellowship Program, a major Harvard program to encourage young scholars working in the humanities...
...Mellon Fellowship began the Program in 1975 with a $1,400,000 grant to the University. Since then, 90 individual Fellowships have been awarded, growing from five in 1976 to 16 last year. About 200 candidates apply each year from colleges and universities across the country...
Award winners are free to work on their own scholarship during the one year period. During and following their year at Harvard. Mellon Fellows have published books, articles, and reviews, and have presented papers at conferences both in this country and abroad The majority of the Fellows have received tenure of tennis track appointments after leaving the University...
Richard M. Hunt, director of the Mellon Program, said yesterday. "The interests of the national academic community have been well served" by the special opportunities provided by the Mellon grants which enable young scholars "to demonstrate their talents before competing for a declining number of tenured positions. "Because of the tightening job market in academics, "it is now harder for scholars to complete the scholastic work they've been capable of," he added...