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Harvard ditches Fonda's gender center. (Newswatch).(Center on Gender and Education)(Brief Article)
Blaming its change of heart on the economy, Harvard University MA has officially squelched the $12.5 million Center on Gender and Education that Jane Fonda promised to finance two years ago.
It was a great idea gone bad. Actor and activist Fonda reportedly was irked by Harvard's slow pace at filling an endowed professorship in the center; Harvard was less than thrilled at its return on about half the money Fonda had already given for the center, which would have been in the graduate school of education.
Plus there was the problem that Dr. Carol Gilligan, renowned psychologist and author of the 1982 classic In A Different Voice on how women develop differently than men, moved from Harvard to New York ...
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