Trustees Announce Cazden Appointment

Courtney B. Cazden became the second tenured woman in the Graduate School of Education when the Board of Overseers last week approved her appointment to full professorship. The Ed School is 47 per cent female.

Cazden, a specialist in language development in young children, said a combination of faculty efforts and pressure from Washington to increase the number of women faculty members contributed to her selection. She denied that her appointment was based primarily on considerations of gender.

"My career has in no way been impeded by being a woman," Cazden said. She has taught at the Ed School since 1965. The only other woman professor of Education is Jeanne S. Challu.

The Corporation also approved ap- pointments of seven other women, only two of which were to faculty positions. The latest appointments, added to those announced last spring, more than double the number of tenured women on University faculties.

Most of the appointments were made following the Bynum-Walzer Faculty Committee recommendations of last May. The Committee said that "the number of women on the Faculty must be increased."

Asked if she felt a correlation existed between recent female appointments and faculty pressure. Cazden--now the 13th woman professor at Harvard--said. "It's no coincidence.