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...decision to institute a policy of equal access followed approval last year of the report of the Strauch Committee, which recommended a reduction of the 2.3-to-1 male-female ratio through the recruitment of an enlarged female applicant pool...
...replace the 4-to-1 balance used for the Class of 1975 and its predecessors. This shift was relatively moderate, calling merely for a drop of 25 in the number of male undergraduates. But the move to equal access admissions this year--a policy officially endorsed by the Strauch Committee but long pushed by Bok--involved a far greater risk of alumni support and donations. Bok's commitment has not emphasized the practical, either; in his 1974 Commencement week speech to the alumni, Bok said: "The admissions practices of a university reflect its educational philosophy and embody its attitudes towards...
Even before Arthurs made her move from dean of Radcliffe admissions to UHall last year, there were a few snags. Temporarily out of a job because of the Strauch Committee Report--which commanded a merged admissions office with one dean--Arthurs, in line with the report's recommendations, bargained for another job. That was all right, but the upshot was that her original request was pared down through negotiation to about half what she wanted. Even at that, she still had sizable formal responsibilities: the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning and the Bureau of Study Counsel were...
...Arthurs declines to comment, but apparently she has received much less responsibility than her job outlined. The reasons for this are not clear: the guess of sources range from "UHall just did not need another dean," to more hostile speculation, such as "Arthurs was forced on UHall by the Strauch Committee and Mass Hall." At any rate, the first floor of UHall looks like a boondoggle right now--there are three deans when one or two could do the job. It is ironic that if Arthurs did all that was assigned to her the dean of the College would...
...them had followed the Strauch Committee and kept informed throughout of what was happening here, in addition to having dealt with equal access at their own universities," she said...