Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Harvard Business School is one of the few remaining branches of the University not open to women. But career-minded local lasses can take a practical business training course without crossing the town line. Radcliffe's Management Training Program, the only Annex course not administered by Harvard faculty, has for 13 years offered a ten-month introduction to office management...
...fall of 1937 "to bridge the gap between liberal arts education and professional work" the course has turned out 316 graduates, who net an average salary of $3,000 to $5,000 a year. Top earners make about $7,000. The program is administered by two directors--T. North Whitehead and Mrs. Ragnhild J. Roberts...
Like the Harvard Business School the Management Training Program uses case studies, but the Radcliffe curriculum goes a step further in applying the practical case method. The Annex program combines seven months of classes with two "field work" periods when the student takes...
...basic program is meant to season the trainee and prepares her for a second round of courses...
Results of the field work period are well documented and all students may benefit from varied reactions to the program. Students write a confidential report on the student, and the student tells her experiences to her classmates. "This way each girl gets the benefit of about 70 job experiences by the time the course is completed," Mrs. Roberts explained...