Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

1977

Radcliffe and Harvard sign an agreement governing their new educational partnership.

1975

A joint Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions begins to admit male and female undergraduates.

1972

Harvard Yard is opened to female residents.

1970

The first joint Harvard and Radcliffe commencement is held in Harvard Yard.

1963

All programs in the Harvard Business School are opened to women and the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration ends.

1963

Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is opened to women and the Radcliffe Graduate School closes.

1960

Concerned about the “climate of unexpectation” facing women academics, Radcliffe President Mary Ingraham Bunting establishes the community of scholars, scientists, and artists known as the Bunting Fellowship Program.

1943

The donation of Maud Wood Park's suffrage papers forms the nucleus of the Schlesinger Library, which becomes the foremost library on the history of women in the United States. The library’s opening ceremonies are held on the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the 19th Amendment.

1943

During World War II, Harvard and Radcliffe sign an agreement opening Harvard classrooms to women students for the first time.

1894

The Annex is chartered as Radcliffe College by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The College is named in honor of Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, who established Harvard’s first scholarship fund in 1643.

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