Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOMENTUM which seemed to be leading Radcliffe irresistably towards merger has halted since Radcliffe's sixth President, Matina S. Horner, took office last Fall. When asked about the future of women at Harvard, Horner has invariably replied that she wants to know more about the implications of proposed policies before taking a stand on them. And she has ranked merger, publicly at least, as one of the lesser problems confronting Radcliffe...
...idea of total merger was very much in the air prior to 1970, but in that year the Committee on Harvard-Radcliffe Relations drew back from proposing it, saying that Radcliffe still had some "unfinished business in implementing provisions which will aid women in completing and making full use of their education...
...judge from the experience of recent years at Harvard and at other Ivy League schools, merger promises to spur University efforts toward hiring more women at every level of staff and faculty position. Here, the non-merger agreement prompted the appointment of Deans Solomon and Austin to University Hall; the number of tenured women on the faculty has increased from one to a total of six over the past four years. Princeton, whose hiring of women faculty members has grown dramatically since the University began admitting women, is an encouraging example. Furthermore, the contributions of women who have already found...
Opponents to merger argue that its benefits are illusory. Believing that the problem of equal access is secondary to reform of the institution to which women seek admission, the most extreme group claims that no good can come from merger with the callous and unjust University. But whatever the issue, women are now in no position to change anything, although they continue to be affected by Harvard's policies. Through merger, women can become a pressure group within the University more difficult to disregard than "those Radcliffe bitches...
MANY WHO ARE COOL to merger predict the disappearance or mutation of Education for Action and the Radcliffe Institute. Citing the old, but potent tradition of male domination at Harvard, these people argue that Radcliffe has no guarantee that Harvard will change any of its practices after merger. Granted, merger is no panacea for social inequities which are reflected in and fostered by the University, but neither is merger the suicide note that it is pictured by opponents. A merger is a contract, an agreement in which both parties stipulate the conditions of their new relationship. Radcliffe will have...