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...Radcliffe Institute offer alumni colleges, each giving three week-long sessions on three different subjects and each open to Harvard and Radcliffe alumni. The participants do a fair amount of advance reading, then spend their week at the college going to lectures and discussing the material. Peter D. Shultz '52, general secretary of the Associated Harvard Alumni, who piloted the first alumni college five years ago, says the alumni office has found that alumni respond best to this kind of intensive work on a single topic...
...indeed, Shultz may be right. Administrators of both programs have found that the intensive week-long programs are attractive to the alumni, who couldn't come for longer periods because they can't leave their jobs or their children. Kim M. Anway, the coordinator for this year's Harvard alumni college, says that an experimental program taught by Edwin O. Reischauer several years ago lasted ten days, but that both the participants and the faculty involved found it too long and intensive. Nancy R. Downey, who directs the Radcliffe Institute's alumni program says that a week seems...
People attend the programs for different reasons. Both colleges are open to all alumni of the University and to non-alumni who are interested in the subjects offered. Harvard has found that more participants come from the fields of business or education than any other career categories, but, as Shultz points out, those are the two most widely chosen careers for Harvard alumni. About 30 per cent of the participants have been to other Harvard alumni colleges, with some people returning year-after year. The Radcliffe program is too new to really know where its market lies, Downey says...
...Alumni College and taped seminars represent a substantial shift in emphasis on the part of the alumni office. Shultz feels that the "common denominator that between alumni isn't football parties or dinners, but the classroom experience," and now the AHA is trying to cater more to the alumni's desire for further education, instead of whetting their interest with open bars and pennant waving
...Peter D. Shultz '52, general secretary of the A.H.A., says that "extensive discussions with members of the Strauch committee were incaluable for providing background to Alumni." Shultz says that meeting with the committee and a May, 1974 A H A huddle including discussion of the proposals, were an important factor in the eventual AHA support of the Strauch Committee proposals...