Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe and Harvard doesn't want to pay for them or have anything to do with them," Mayman says. "Radcliffe developed the pottery studio and will continue to pay for it." The programs that Bok pays for are those that Mayman developed in conjunction with the president after the merger...
...Office of the Arts, as it is today, Mayman explains, was spawned by two events: the merger and by the recommendations of Bok's 1973 committee to review the state of the arts at the University. The committee, headed by James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, suggested that the presidents create an office which might eliminate the "confusion and diffusion" of the arts at the newly merged schools...
...didn't take long for Mayman and her office to eliminate whatever confusion and diffusion that plagued the arts at the schools before and during the merger. The office--and the arts at Harvard-Radcliffe--now look as complete and polished as a painting by a master artist...
Through congeniality and cooperation in Byerly Hall, the committee became one in the fall of 1975. "Radcliffe's committee did not dissolve into Harvard's or vice versa." Fitzsimmons says. Indeed, the similarities in the operations of the separate committees led to few changes after the merger. The major difference occurred in the female applicant pool, as a larger and more diverse group of women applied...
Mary Anne Schwalbe, former director of Radcliffe admissions and later associate dean of admissions and financial aid, adds another reason--greater opportunities for women. With accepted. Before the merger, the 2.5:1 ratio of men to women left only 450 places for women. With equal access, however, all 1600 places are available. Schwalbe, now director of admissions and college counseling at The Dalton School in New York, says that after equal access took effect, she found she had more "conviction" in recruiting. "It was easier to encourage women to apply because there were so many opportunities," she adds...