The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study may be looking at sweeping changes to many of its main programs, after receiving an evaluative report from a committee comprised of higher education experts.

The 51-page document says that Radcliffe should centralize and streamline its many offerings, keeping only those programs that align with the Institute's academic mission of studying "women, gender and society."

The report calls for a "fundamental refram[ing]" of the Public Policy Center, noting that the center should analyze rather than develop public policy.

Evaluators also wrote that the Institute "should undertake a full review of its [educational programs]...with a view toward identifying ones that should be preserved in some form..."

Radcliffe's educational programs include varied offerings in the fields of creative arts, liberal arts, leadership and professional development, landscape design and landscape design history. The Radcliffe Publishing Course, perhaps the best known program, will be moving to Columbia University next fall.

Tamar March, director of educational programs at the Institute, and former dean of students when Radcliffe was still responsible for undergraduate women, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Paula Rayman, director of the Public Policy Center, did not return

repeated calls from The Crimson.