Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strauch committee has not been asked to look into actual questions of merger between Harvard and Radcliffe, only questions of admissions alternatives and the effect each of these alternatives will have upon the number of students, their distribution in various academic departments, alumni relations, financial aid programs and special education needs of women in the Harvard community...
...women. Horner put Alberta B. Arthurs, dean of admissions, financial aid and women's education, in general charge of all Radcliffe undergraduate administration. She hired a new assistant, Charlotte Davis, to go after government and foundation grant money. The creation of the Strauch Committee has taken direct responsibility for merger planning and negotiations off of her shoulders. She has not, by and large, taken militant public stands on the issues concerning women in the University, and she freely acknowledges that she does not like to travel around the country giving speeches or raising money...
Because of Horner's view of merger--the corporate details are less important than a really equal education--the most burning current issue for her is admissions, the only area of women's education that Radcliffe controls. She refers to the Strauch committee, which presumably is studying the educational aspects of merger, as "an admissions study," responsible for working out the interlocking problems of the size and the male-female ratio of the College...
...equal numbers are achieved is equally important. For instance, we're having difficulties in athletics right now, although the athletic departments have been merged fully. There are incredible problems right now. We're a long way from having the athletic department teach students equitably. I'll never accept a merger if it's a submerger...
Aside from the issues the Strauch Committee is dealing with, the corporate aspects of merger come up for review next spring as well, and Horner will be participating in a series of meetings starting this summer to discuss the merger renewal. "There's a wide range of possibilities," she says. "We could dissolve the Radcliffe board of trustees in exchange for places on the Corporation (now all male). Or we could make Radcliffe a tub within Harvard University. Or we could merge some areas and not others, or work together cooperatively. But I hope after a serious review that...