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for 2003 and 2010 which "led to the creation of three new interdisciplinary centers: the
Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives, and the Center for the Environment." This involvement would later be credited as leading to the further
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an alliance of institutions of higher education whose goal is to advance women's education around the globe. This international initiative was founded in 2003 by Mount
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This article was taken from a longer paper, "A Tradition of Their Own or, If a Woman Can Now Be
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