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...Bryn Mawr College may have to eliminate most of its graduate programs, cut back some student services, and increase its enrollment and its student-teacher ratio in order to overcome a financial crisis in which the school is slowly eating into its endowment, administrators said this week...
...point, faculty members, fearing that increasing enrollment would result in a decline in student quality, even suggested making Bryn Mawr a coeducational school, but students were "incensed" by that idea, said junior Mili A. Cisneros, president of the Student Government Association...
...proposed cutting back of most of the college's graduate school programs has caused unrest among students. Under the new plan, only Bryn Mawr's "most prestigious" programs, such as Classics, Archaeology, and Art History, would continue to exist, Cisneros said. There are currently graduate programs in 26 fields...
...such academic brush fires. Notre Dame's Hesburgh attributes Harvard's continuing eminence in part to the strength of Bok's reign. "He certainly has been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give real leadership in some areas...
...victim, Jeanne Ann Cleary of Bryn Mawr, Penn., was found at 11 a.m. Saturday by another student in her dorm. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Northhampton County Coroner Joseph Reichel...