Radcliffe College Profile
Located in: Cambridge, Massachusetts
First admitted students: 1879
Original name: The Harvard Annex
Formally chartered as a college: 1894
Traditionally affiliated with: Harvard University
Current name: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (for Women's Studies), part of Harvard University
Founded by: Arthur Gilman. First woman donor was Ann Radcliffe Mowlson.
Presidents have included: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, Ada Louise Comstock
Some famous graduates: Fannie Fern Andrews, Margaret Atwood, Susan Berresford, Benazir Bhutto, Stockard Channing, Nancy Chodorow, Mary Parker Follett, Carol Gilligan, Ellen Goodman, Lani Guinier, Helen Keller, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Anne McCaffrey, Mary White Ovington, Katha Pollitt, Bonnie Raitt, Phyllis Schlafly, Gertrude Stein - Biography of Gertrude Stein, Barbara Tuchman,
No longer admits students as a separate institution from Harvard University: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Harvard University
