Rosovsky Asks Radcliffe to Put College Programs Under FAS

Dean Rosovsky this week issued an annual report calling for Radcliffe to reorganize its remaining undergraduate programs and administrators under the aegis of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

The 1974-75 report of the dean, which Rosovsky called more "reflective" than past reports, also covered the University's financial crisis, the state of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), and the prospects for change in undergraduate education.

Calling the present lines of administrative responsibility "confused and conflicting," Rosovsky said that institutions like the Office of Women's Education (OWE) would be better advocates for women if they were under the "umbrella" of the Faculty.

Judith B. Walzer, head of the OWE, last night declined to comment on the dean's statement, saying she wants time to think about it.

President Horner was unavailable for comment.

No Different

Rosovsky said yesterday that the views in his annual report on the merger of Radcliffe's undergraduate activities are no different from those he has held for a long time and expressed repeatedly.

For the GSAS, the report recommends a re-evaluation of the school's two-year-old admissions and financial aid policies.

It also suggests that the GSAS "pay more attention to the future job prospects of our graduate students" and "train them to take better advantage of existing opportunities."

Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, explained last night that many graduate students, especially in the humanities, can no longer be assured of first-class teaching positions.

Wider Horizons

"We've got the widen their horizons about what would be an appropriate job for a Ph.D.," he said, adding that he will take a close look this year at the numbers of graduate students being admitted in each field.

The bulk of Rosovsky's report concerns the University's response concerns the University's response to "financial vicissitudes," predicting that "frugal management and vigorous fund-raising activity will enable us to bring our income and expenditures into balance."

He said that although some expenditures for individual research did not seem justified in terms of "strictly economic calculations," they are necessary if the University "is to remain at the frontier of scientific investigation and in the front ranks of scholarship."

Concerning undergraduate education, the dean said he hopes to present a series of reform proposals to the Faculty beginning in 1976-77.

"We may not be able to produce another Red Book, if by that one means a series of rather general and broadly applicable educational principles--although we will try," the report said