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Diana L. Nelson ’84, chair of the Harvard College Fund and a member of the task force, points to pre-merger tensions between Harvard and Radcliffe as a major obstacle to female giving at the time. “People who are generous to the College often can meet the College leaders and have a voice,” she says. “And I felt that women, because they were essentially being pulled in two directions, didn’t have the same kind of voice...
Additionally, Fowler-Finn must implement a controversial school merger plan—a task that proved the undoing of the previous superintendent—in a city whose residents have become demoralized and mistrustful of the district’s leadership...
...Merger Solution...
Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro presented the first merger plan last June, and proposed two additional modifications during the fall...
...November, the school committee not only delayed a final decision on the school mergers, but in a surprise move voted not to renew D’Alessandro’s contract—citing the her mishandling of the merger plans and her lack of a clear vision for the district...