Word: horner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have Radcliffe?" Horner says. "In educational terms Radcliffe and Harvard are merged, although their corporate sides are not. But the important place to affect the lives of undergraduates is through their education. The only thing that's not merged is admissions. (This year, for the first time, the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices are in the same building, Byerly Hall in Radcliffe Yard...
Since she took over the Radcliffe presidency, Horner has had to appoint new directors for five of the nine Radcliffe departments--admissions, women's education, the Schlesinger Library, publicity, and alumni career services--and she is still working on her sixth and perhaps most important major appointment: a new director for the Radcliffe Institute...
...institute, a 14-year-old section of Radcliffe that grants about 35 fellowships a year to women and uses one-third of Radcliffe's $3 million annual budget, is especially important to Horner because it is undergoing changes that reflect her own interests. The institute is generally known as an elite, exclusively academic institution but now, under new grants Horner got during her first year in the presidency, is expanding its scope...
With a planning-grant from the Ford Foundation, Horner added para-professional training--as a safeguard for women who could might go jobless in an economic crunch--to the institute's programs. She said in January, "I'm becoming an economic pessimist. I worry that in a no-growth economy we are encouraging women into positions that won't be there. The recession could backfire on women, and we must be prepared for that. The worst thing that could happen is that women who have trained for a career will come out of school only to bump their heads against...
That kind of attitude puts Horner in a role unusual among college presidents. Because he has final say over so much of what goes on here, President Bok is usually more of a judge on controversial issues than an advocate; he has all sorts of people with different interests to keep happy. Horner sees herself as an advocate, a protector and furtherer of the rights of women, the University's largest minority group...