After high school Park went on to earn her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College, graduating summa cum laude with a major in German.

In 1953, 6 years after assuming the Presidency, Park eliminated a number of vocationally oriented programs including home economics and clerical skills which she felt were not up to the standards of a rigorous liberal arts education.

[1] Park sought to bolster the college's standing as an "intellectually pure"[1] institutional through the addition of courses in English composition and literature, American and European history, government, laboratory sciences, philosophy, religion, foreign languages, music and art, and mathematics and logic.

[1] Park focused heavily on curriculum reform, reviewing existing courses and reducing requirements with the intention of improving the quality of student work.

In relation to student welfare, Park heavily encouraged female participation in the sciences, working to obtain a laboratory for the College independent from Columbia's facilities.

[3] Overall, she encouraged her female students to pursue traditionally rigorous subjects in the sciences and the field of linguistics, believing that women were equally as capable as their male colleagues to excel in such areas.

[5] As Vice Chancellor Park focused mainly on reviewing the university's academic curriculum and programs based on her numerous years of expertise at both Connecticut College and Barnard.