Radcliffe Receives $323,000 Funding For Fellows Plan

The Carnegie Foundation yesterday approved a $323,000 grant to Radcliffe to establish a program of part-time fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for non-tenured women faculty, the director of the institute said yesterday.

Patricia A. Graham said the three-year grant will subsidize a program allowing four Boston-area junior-faculty women each year to divide their time equally between teaching and research while affiliated with the institute.

The institute will give each woman on the part-time fellowships about half an assistant professor's salary annually--approximately $6500--with the school where the woman is regularly employed paying the other half, she said.

Letters will be sent out to regional colleges and universities, Graham said, asking them to nominate any of their junior facully women for a fellowship. Any non-tenured faculty women will also be able to nominate themselves, she said.

Terrific Women

Graham said that by asking schools to make nominations from within their faculties for the fellowships "the terrific women at these schools will no longer suffer from 'invisibility'" as they have in the past.

Present Horner said yesterday the purpose of the program is to give nontenured women a chance to do research, which will allow them to better compete for tenured posts, and to call attention to "the very able women" at schools in the area.

Horner said that when she sent out letters a few months ago to university presidents in the Boston area telling them about the fellowship program, the idea got "99.8 per cent favorable and supportive" responses.

Horner also said she hopes the program "will prove effective enough" to encourage the development of similar programs in other areas.