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Vogt added that the workshop was “in keeping” with RUS’s mission—creating a community for women on campus and helping women to be heard at Harvard. RUS was the student governing body of Radcliffe College before the Harvard-Radcliffe merger...
...that “institutional inertia” seems to be the only reason Radcliffe continues to exist as a part of Harvard University. While Radcliffe’s role as a “college” was definitely somewhat ambiguous in the two decades before the 1999 merger, Radcliffe’s presence in its current form is more than justified...
Under the terms of the merger, Dean Faust will also sit alongside the deans of the college, law, medical and business schools on the University Board of Deans. As the first head of Radcliffe to gain membership to the board, Faust will also be the first female representative of any Harvard “tub” to serve. Dean Faust’s unprecedented role within the University, coupled with her desire and ability to improve the position of female faculty at Harvard, will only enhance Radcliffe’s capacity to fight against the “institutional...
...little more than a mockery of the old Radcliffe College. I blame institutional inertia for its continued existence, and I hope that president-elect Lawrence H. Summers will have to courage to call for its dissolution, which ought to have been accomplished during the Harvard-Radcliffe merger...
Redmond says she feels that Radcliffe's merger with Harvard, the rate of sexual assault on campus and the lack of tenured female Faculty members demonstrate the unequal position of women at Harvard...