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...type, which the Radcliffe committee seems to have in mind, are schools which have recently inaugurated programs leading to a bachelor's degree in women's studies. Such programs are now in operation at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, UMass-Amherst, and, as of a few weeks ago, Barnard College...
Harvard may not yet have a program like any of those, but its slow movement toward establishing a women's studies program is strikingly similar to the process undergone by the schools in the latter category. Three schools in particular--UMass, Penn and Barnard--followed patterns similar to that which Harvard may be following...
...legislative faculty bodies. Progress was slow--the fight averaged about three years--because there was invariably some opposition. At Penn, Pollock says, hostility was less of a problem than indifference. "The administration probably didn't think it was an important area." Mary Parlee '65, associate professor of Psychology at Barnard who participated in this spring's s successful effort to get a major established there, says, "The faculty wanted to know what its substance was. They were simply unfamiliar with the work going on in feminist studies...
...program rather than a department. All three hold special administrative status, all encourage the integration of women's studies material in courses that do not deal directly with women, and several hire visiting professors in the field. Funding differs somewhat from school to school, with the Barnard and UMass programs sponsored by the University's special programs fund, and Penn's funded mainly by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant...
Most of the women on the Harvard women's studies committee think a Harvard program needs departmental status to give it political clout. But spokesmen for the UMass, Penn, and Barnard programs say they are pleased with their non-departmental rank, because it allows an interdisciplinary approach, and allows them to pressure other departments. Parlee does say that she would prefer to see a regular department, but the Barnard committee opted for a program as the most easy route...