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...three part post. Working with her as director of admissions is Mary Ann Schwalbe '55, who has worked in the office for the last eight years. Sylvia T. Simmons will continue as director of Financial Aid and as an associate dean of admissions. The Office of Women's Education (OWE) is the competely new component in Arthurs's office. As yet it has no director, although a search committee has been interviewing candidates for several months. Arthurs said last week that she hopes the new director will be at work by the end of this month...
...Lyman, Chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, has been serving as acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute since June and will continue to do so until a permanent dean for the Institute is found. In fact, the dean's post at the Institute and the directorship of OWE are the only appointments still unfilled...
Although many projects she plans for the OWE will have to wait until after the appointment of its director. Arthurs said that the office will function as an "ongoing, undramatic, insistent and assertive advocacy group for women." She explained that the OWE will work on small investigative projects and liaison efforts to "identify the points where women can exert pressure on the University...
...OWE'S initial projects will be a study of the distribution of women in academic concentrations, and of how departments in which women are under-represented treat their female members. Arthurs said that her office will work closely with secondary schools to encourage women with natural aptitude in mathematics, economics and the natural sciences to pursue their interests. Simultaneously. Arthurs said, the office will work with Harvard departments so that (1) female applicants with these interests will choose Harvard over colleges such as Stanford or Yale which already have special programs, and (2) once here, they will continue...
Arthurs said that through OWE-initiated projects and through studying Radcliffe's archives, the colleges administrators will study the experience of Radcliffe students and their career patterns after college. However, these studies may only serve to satisfy their curiosity, she said. "I expect the really concrete things will come out of Harvard's Office of Instructional Research since it now collects the same information on women as on men," she explained. "We have stopped asking questions just about Radcliffe students: it doesn't help us to know how many women graduated magna or summa unless we know how many...