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Apr 30, 2020 · Here, we’ve curated a selection of Harvard Magazine stories on women’s history that we think you’ll find informative and often surprising, covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more.
- Nature Walks
This is the fifth installment in Harvard Magazine’s new...
- Night at The Museum
The Bauhaus school and movement influenced architecture and...
- The Climate Crisis
Harvard student activists have been pushing for fossil-fuel...
- Medical Breakthroughs
This is the seventh installment in Harvard Magazine’s series...
- Nature Walks
Dec 19, 2012 · Unlike other women’s colleges, Radcliffe never had its own professors—it was originally founded so that women could get access to Harvard faculty members. Due to financial constraints during...
Dec 18, 2018 · Harvard men build buildings, conquer disease, play football, appoint cabinets, give speeches, and confront the press, but the women pictured are apparently distinguished only because they were the “first” of something. In 1904, “Helen Keller became Radcliffe’s first blind graduate.”*
The Institute for Independent Study and Radcliffe College coexisted until 1999, when Radcliffe College and Harvard officially merged, and today's Radcliffe Institute was formally established.
Because Radcliffe's faculty was Harvard's, in the college's first 50 years, professors from Harvard, each under individual contracts with the Radcliffe administration – duplicated lectures, providing them first for men in the Harvard Yard and then crossing the Cambridge Common to provide the same lectures to women in the Radcliffe Yard.
Jun 8, 2020 · New book explores the early years of Radcliffe though the lives of five of its first fellows. It was called “a messy experiment” by its founder. It became a hub of creativity that helped propel forward the women it engaged, and the women’s movement, in crucial ways.
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Oct 14, 2009 · Its history in snapshots marks a gradual progress toward gender parity: Radcliffe’s founding (1894), the first women in Harvard classrooms (1943), joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas (1963), and finally a formal merger with Harvard (1977).
