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...Harvard, as an institution, often seems to represent that attitude, Radcliffe, in 1966, created one of the University's several exceptions to the rule. Mary I. Bunting, former president of Radcliffe College, founded Education for Action (E4A) to provide "earlier opportunities (for students) to test and develop capabilities that are not called into play by their academic assignments." She established a program of student summer internships with Peace Corps volunteers working abroad...
Seven years later, E4A is drastically different from the organization Bunting originally conceived. Its growth and change clearly reflect a more realistic view of the world beyond Harvard's reassuring walls. But, just as critically, E4A reflects the difficulties inherent in running a program of cooperative, student- controlled educational activities in a competitive University traditionally emphasizing other goals...
...E4A's program currently involves three main kinds of activity: operating a clearinghouse for students seeking information on social action projects, sponsoring workshops and seminars on social and political issues, and helping to fund individual student- designed projects in a wide range of areas of social change...
...clearinghouse which has the potential for reaching the most students, and students associated with E4A say they wish more people would use its resources. The information center occupies a cramped office on the first floor of Aggasiz House, housing extensive files on educational innovation and on workshops and conferences on social issues. E4A offers access to probably the largest library on Latin American affairs on campus, dozens of publications on domestic and Third World politics, information on volunteer openings and opportunities for "alternative" careers, and publications which E4A sells on different aspects of social involvement...
Finally, the two organizations rely on different traditions of organization which have shaped the character of their administrations. PBH has been constituted as a Harvard organization and has the resources and history of a House 72 years old. E4A is a six-year-old Radcliffe organization striving to establish an independent identity. Both serve the University and Cambridge, but their approaches are complementary, not overlapping...