Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depends on your definition of "periodically." Buried in the middle of the May 1977 agreement that redefined Radcliffe's educational, financial and legal relationship with Harvard, there is a clause outlining the functions of the Joint Policy Committee. The Committee, or the JPC as it would probably be known if anybody except the members knew it existed, was established primarily to draw up the agreement...
...Joint Policy Committee," the document states, "composed of no more than eight persons with equal numbers from each institution, will continue to exist." And, the document continued, "the Joint Policy Committee will continue to meet periodically...
That was in May 1977. Today, more than two and a half years since President Bok and President Horner signed their names to the agreement, the Joint Policy Committee, or so its members say, has "continued to exist." But it has not met "periodically." In fact, it has not met since 1977. Period...
...simple. The two institutions shared some instructors but clung possessively to their separate bureaucracies. About eight years ago, however, all that changed. Radcliffe formerly revised its relations with Harvard in the so-called 1971 amendment. The 1971 document outlined, in yet another clause, the precursor of the JPC--the Joint Budget Committee. "The annual budget for the retained programs," (those programs that Radcliffe would still finance) the document stated, "shall be subject to the review and approval of a committee representing the Governing Boards of Harvard and Radcliffe and composed of equal numbers from each institution...
...Joint Budget Committee, however, was not long for this world. About six years later, in the midst of the reconsideration of relations between the two colleges, the Committee disappeared--with a minimum of fanfare--superceded by the Joint Policy Committee. The new group--composed of Presidents Bok and Horner, various Radcliffe Trustees and Harvard Corporation members and other administrators--drew up the 1977 agreement. And then it went into retirement...