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From the Executive Dean<br />
A Memorable Year<br />
This February, I had the humbling experience of chairing the selection<br />
process <strong>for</strong> the 2006–2007 class of <strong>Radcliffe</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> fellows. With an<br />
acceptance rate of only 5 percent <strong>for</strong> the 2005–2006 class, the <strong>Radcliffe</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
Fellowship Program has rapidly become one of the most competitive<br />
programs of its kind in the world, drawing 19 percent of its applicants from<br />
outside the United States and 34 percent from non-American citizens.<br />
Thanks to the generosity of our alumnae/i and the hard work of our staff, the<br />
<strong>Radcliffe</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> is on a firm financial footing, enabling us to support the<br />
work of our fellows and the growth of the Schlesinger Library while bringing<br />
us closer to our goal of fully endowing our activities.<br />
This has been an extraordinarily exciting year at <strong>Radcliffe</strong> but an<br />
unusual one. In January, five years after coming to Cambridge as dean of the<br />
<strong>Radcliffe</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>, Drew Gilpin Faust took a one-semester sabbatical to work<br />
on her book on the role of death in the Civil War. It is a testament to the success<br />
of her leadership in firmly establishing both the programs of the <strong>Institute</strong><br />
and the infrastructure to support them that we have not missed a beat in<br />
her absence.<br />
With an acceptance rate of only five percent <strong>for</strong> the 2005–2006 class, the <strong>Radcliffe</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
Fellowship Program has rapidly become one of the most competitive programs of its kind in<br />
the world.<br />
fellowship program<br />
This year, <strong>Radcliffe</strong> welcomed fifty-one fellows to Cambridge, representing a<br />
wide range of disciplines and the creative arts. We had two research clusters<br />
of fellows: one cluster, composed of three economists and an American historian,<br />
worked on a multiyear project examining the career trajectory of<br />
women and men graduates from elite universities; the other cluster, composed<br />
of a linguist, a philosopher, and a computer scientist, examined the<br />
question of syntax. Each of these groups was accepted as a cluster to the fellowship<br />
program, and a third <strong>for</strong>med while in residence. Three fellows—<br />
one working on African American marriage in the nineteenth century, one<br />
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