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The three school show similar successes and problems. All three programs were initiated by students with faculty support. Martha Pollock, coordinating assistant of the Penn program, says agitation at her school in the early 1970s included 'sit-ins and other exciting thing." Cathy Portuges, coordinator of the UMass program, says...
Portuges says at UMass those who wanted a program had to demonstrate substantial support and had to show "trend data" to convince the administration the field was not a temporary fad. She blames cumbersome administrative machinery for the length of time it took to get a proposal through.
Despite expanding curriculum offerings and rising numbers of enrolled students, each of these programs have what their administrators consider definite problems. They can be summed up in three words: money, tenure and perspective. Portuges says the problem is not finding people qualified to teach women's studies, but keeping them...
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