The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is unique among the many distinguished schools of Harvard: interdisciplinary by design and animated by an institutional legacy of promoting inclusion. Harvard Radcliffe Institute is an interdisciplinary community of students, scholars, researchers, practitioners, artists, and others committed to pursuing curiosity-driven research, expanding human understanding, and grappling with questions that demand insight from across disciplines.
Skip to main content. Close search Search for people, topics, events, etc. About the Institute. Fay House has been at the heart of Radcliffe College, and now the Institute, since its very earliest days. From , Radcliffe students received Harvard diplomas signed by the presidents of Radcliffe and Harvard, and joint commencement exercises began in The same year, several Harvard and Radcliffe dormitories began swapping students experimentally, and in full co-residence was instituted.
The schools' departments of athletics merged shortly thereafter. In , Harvard and Radcliffe signed an agreement that put undergraduate women entirely in Harvard College, maintaining for them only a nominal enrollment in Radcliffe College.
In practice most of the energies of Radcliffe which remained an autonomous institution were devoted to its other initiatives, such as the Bunting fellowship program, rather than to female undergraduates. During this time, the Harvard undergraduate community and class was officially known as "Harvard and Radcliffe" or "Harvard-Radcliffe", and female students continued to be awarded degrees signed by both presidents, even though Radcliffe usually had little to no impact on the average undergraduate's experience at the university.
On October 1, , this arrangement came to an end, as Radcliffe College was finally fully absorbed into Harvard University; female undergraduates were henceforward members only of Harvard College while Radcliffe College evolved into the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Its Schlesinger Library is one of America's largest repositories of manuscripts and archives relating to the history of women.
Several undergraduate student organizations in Harvard College still refer to Radcliffe in their names, for example the Radcliffe Union of Students , Harvard's feminist organization; the Radcliffe Choral Society , Harvard's female choir now one of the Holden Choirs , which has alumnae from both Radcliffe and Harvard and maintains a repertoire of Radcliffiana; the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra ; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players.
Two athletic teams still compete under the Radcliffe name: varsity crew , which still rows with Radcliffe's black-and-white oarblades and uniforms instead of Harvard's crimson-and-white in the team had been the only varsity team which voted not to adopt the Harvard name ; and club rugby union. In addition, the Harvard University Band still plays a Radcliffe fight song. A number of Radcliffe alumnae have gone on to become notable in their respective fields, such as:.
Administrators spent the months following the vote figuring out how to operate as one co-educational institution and resolve long-lasting inequities between Harvard men and Radcliffe women. Radcliffe alumna Ruth M. Radcliffe was then granted an official charter by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in The early charter seemed to hint at the inevitability of the union between Harvard and Radcliffe.
The process to achieve that mutual benefit took the form of discussions over several topics between Harvard and Radcliffe in the late s and early s. Much of the conversation centered on undergraduate housing, as students of both colleges pushed the administration to support coeducational residence.
Several Radcliffe students said they were deprived of the same educational enrichment opportunities that men had outside of the classroom. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events.
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