Word: deanship
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Alberta Arthurs has only herself to blame for the fact that she is leaving her post as dean of the now-extinct Radcliffe Office of Admissions, Financial Aid and Women's Education to assume the deanship of Harvard's new Office of Undergraduate Affairs. After all, Arthurs has been hard at work for the last two years preparing the scenario for her own exit. Voicing her views "very noisily" on the Strauch Committee, Arthurs pushed for an admissions policy that would make her own Byerly Hall bailiwick superfluous. Now, with equal access and merged admissions offices a reality...
According to Arthurs, creation of the Office of Undergraduate Affairs was discussed in University Hall prior to the publication of the Strauch Report, but, she says, "I'm not at all sure the deanship would have materialized so quickly if changes hadn't been taking place in other parts of the University." While she admits she's been sensitive to the possibility that some feelings in University Hall may have been hurt by the news of her appointment, she says so far "people have been quite cordial" and she anticipates no great difficulties in working with anyone in the administration...
Arthurs this spring reportedly decided to take the new undergraduate affairs deanship instead of becoming associate dean of Harvard-Radcliffe admissions...
Alberta Arthurs. Radcliffe dean of admissions, financial aid and women's education, will probably assume a new deanship in University Hall when the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices merge next month, sources said yesterday...
...draft proposal for the new deanship, circulated earlier this month in University Hall, described the position as mainly involved in assisting Dean Whitlock on undergraduate affairs involving counseling and advising resources and needs...