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...people in University Hall, she goes over to U Hall and talks to the deans herself. For example: Dean Rosovsky decided this spring to create a new deanship with supervisory power over all undergraduate education and administration, to be titled "associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard College." Horner convinced him to change the title to "associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges," and before the announcement of the appointment of Francis M. Pipkin, professor of Physics, to the post, got a big kick out of answering reporters' queries about "what this new guy is like...
Because of Horner's view of merger--the corporate details are less important than a really equal education--the most burning current issue for her is admissions, the only area of women's education that Radcliffe controls. She refers to the Strauch committee, which presumably is studying the educational aspects of merger, as "an admissions study," responsible for working out the interlocking problems of the size and the male-female ratio of the College...
Aside from the issues the Strauch Committee is dealing with, the corporate aspects of merger come up for review next spring as well, and Horner will be participating in a series of meetings starting this summer to discuss the merger renewal. "There's a wide range of possibilities," she says. "We could dissolve the Radcliffe board of trustees in exchange for places on the Corporation (now all male). Or we could make Radcliffe a tub within Harvard University. Or we could merge some areas and not others, or work together cooperatively. But I hope after a serious review that...
...Horner considers her deanship--she is dean of Radcliffe College under Rosovsky as well as being Radcliffe's president--crucial to the implementation of equality, because it brings her in close touch with the process of educating the women Radcliffe has admitted. "It's not enough to just admit students and then let the Faculty of Arts and Sciences take them over," she says. "When I was appointed I asked that my deanship be Faculty of Arts and Sciences-related. I sit on the Faculty Council; sitting with the policy-making board of the Faculty is very important...
...Horner's shift from the specific to the general this year comes partly because she was so specific in her duties last year, when she was learning the ropes of the job. She came to Harvard in 1969 after getting her B.A. at Bryn Mawr (she turned down Radcliffe) and her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She taught a few undergraduate courses and had something of a following in her field because of her studies in women's fear of success, but at the time of her appointment she had little experience with Harvard administrative work...