Word: wolfman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe's finances that ensure its independence. Under the terms of the 1977 Agreement between Presidents Bok and Horner, Radcliffe pays Harvard 100 per cent of its tuition income in return for the education Harvard gives undergraduate women. "Harvard is in effect our service bureau," says Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe. Effectively without any tuition income, Radcliffe relies on endowment income and government grants to support its activities...
Radcliffe has no faculty to maintain, so it doesn't need to worry about the astronomical sums Harvard administrators confront daily, and its governing board doesn't handle the same depth and detail of business as the Corporation, Wolfman says. "The Corporation has a hell of a lot more work to do," Burr says. "The president of M.I.T. once served on the Radcliffe Trustees, but he wouldn't become a Corporation member even if you asked him," he adds...
...large grant of money, and oversees Radcliffe's different organs like the Schlesinger Library or the Data Resources Center. But the Board does not have much control over the education of Radcliffe students. "Radcliffe deals with the policy of women at Harvard, not the day-to-day management," Wolfman says...
...Agreement put an end to any idea of a corporate merger between Harvard and Radcliffe, and the Trustees are determined to maintain their independence. The only real links between the two institutions are at the very highest levels. "It's strictly a corporate relationship--President Bok to President Horner," Wolfman says...
...keeping Radcliffe separate, lies in the prominence an independent Radcliffe can give to women's needs both within and without the University. "Women's research is low on Harvard's totem pole, but we can go to the Ford, Carnegie and Lilly and be the first on the queue," Wolfman says. In other words, Radcliffe's separate voice with the government and with corporations gives it more clout in seeking funds for women's needs that would get buried in any Harvard dossier...