Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they dun alumni and other donors for funds, schools are also pinching pennies, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Bryn Mawr is phasing out five graduate departments, including Spanish and anthropology. Lehigh has eliminated its classics department, while Northwestern has cut its nursing and dental hygiene programs. Columbia, which earlier abandoned its linguistics and geography departments, announced in June that it would follow the University of Chicago's lead and shut down its library science school. Dartmouth has cut 55 staffers and eliminated seven junior varsity sports, including men's tennis, lacrosse, soccer and golf...
...presidential candidate list also includes a number of top executives from other institutions: Nannerl O. Keohane, president of Wellesley College; Mary P. McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr College; and Thomas Ehrlich '56, president of Indiana University...
...voters of California sensed, as her feminist dinner companions knew, that starchy appearances can be deceiving. Feinstein does not look like someone given to discussing hysterectomies and high-stakes political battle at the dinner table. She looks like a casting director's idea of a Bryn Mawr president who must be bodily restrained from adding gloves -- or perhaps even a pillbox hat -- to her already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature...
...female schools that remain, survival will require tough choices. To help brighten its bottom line, Bryn Mawr decided three years ago to phase out several graduate departments, pare faculty and staff, and gradually increase its undergraduate enrollment from 1,000 to 1,200. Russell Sage, in Troy, N.Y., has repositioned itself, aggressively courting "resumers" -- women over 25 -- who make up 22% of its undergraduates...
...students) liberal arts school, whose trustees are scheduled to vote in October on whether to admit men. To many young women the rush to coeducation has created a disturbing, and unjustified, diminution of educational choices. "Women's colleges have not become obsolete," maintains Catie Hancock, 21, a Bryn Mawr junior. "It is other factors that kill these schools...