"The report will give a lot of guidance," she said.
Dunn said Radcliffe will pay particular attention to the committee's advice about how to handle the Institute's expanded fellowship program.
"We've been teleconferencing up a storm--I have three just this week," Dunn said.
The Institute received roughly double the number of applications to its fellowship program this year that it received last year--about 600, up from last year's 300 applicants, Dunn said.
The committee includes Wendy Doniger '62, a professor at the University of Chicago, and Ellen C. Lagemann, president of the Spencer Foundation, a private organization that studies educational processes.
Dunn said committee members are not paid for their services.
"It's done as a professional courtesy," she said. "We treat then nicely, put them up at the Inn at Harvard and tool them around in little buses."
--Staff writer Joyce K. McIntyre can be reached at jmcintyr@fas.harvard.edu.