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Committee Creates Shortlist for Radcliffe Dean

About one dozen candidates remain, Rudenstine says

The first regularly appointed dean of the Radcliffe Institute will be charged with defining the Institute's academic undertakings as well as shaping what role Radcliffe will play in the Harvard campus as a whole.

"The first dean will be the founding dean in a sense," Rudenstine said. "She'll shape a lot of the intellectual agenda. She has to figure out how to make all the pieces of Radcliffe work."

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In a speech given at a luncheon for Harvard and Radcliffe alumni on Saturday, Acting Dean of the Institute Mary Maples Dunn said, "Neil has told me he's devoting an hour or two every day to making calls, nationally and internationally, looking for the best person to fill this spot."

Dunn emphasized the pronoun "she" when she mentioned the first regularly appointed dean of Radcliffe, highlighting the notion that the ultimate choice will be a woman.

Rudenstine said he is also looking for someone with a vested interest--though not necessarily an academic one--in the fields of gender or women's studies.

"We're not going to appoint someone who is not vitally interested and committed to those types of issues," he says. "They'll one way or another do work in that field."

A separate selection committee, made up of faculty members, will also be reporting to Rudenstine on candidates.

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