The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced yesterday that its famed publishing course--a summer program that teaches young professionals the ins-and-outs of the publishing world--will move to Columbia University this summer.

The move brings the world-famous Radcliffe Publishing Course to the campus of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and represents a major coup for Columbia, which has worked hard to lure the program away from Radcliffe.

Director of the Radcliffe Publishing course Lindy Hess said yesterday that "Columbia has been talking to me for some time" about the move.

Mary Maples Dunn, acting dean of the Institute, said Hess approached her "several weeks ago" to discuss leaving Radcliffe and taking the course with her.

"Columbia approached Lindy--they wanted to hire her away," Dunn said. "She talked it over with me."

The publishing course was undoubtedly one of Radcliffe's most famous and respected programs, so much so that The New York Times deemed it "the most celebrated summer program of its kind" last year.

"More and more, the industry is dependent on the course," Hess told The Crimson last year. "We know everybody in the industry."

Although Dunn and Hess acknowledged Columbia had lured the course away from Harvard, they also said the publishing course did not quite fit into Radcliffe's new mission as a research institution.