Challenged by Coeducation
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Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to the most recent wave of Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education. Women's academic successes and their persistent struggles to enter men's colleges resulted in coeducation rapidly becoming the norm, however. Still, many prestigious institutions remained single-sex, notably most of the Ivy League and all of the Seven Sisters colleges.

In the mid-twentieth century colleges' concerns about finances and enrollments, as well as ideological pressures to integrate formerly separate social groups, led men's colleges, and some women's colleges, to become coeducational. The admission of women to practically all men's colleges created a serious challenge for women's colleges. Most people no longer believed women's colleges were necessary since women had virtually unlimited access to higher education. Even though research spawned by the women's movement indicated the benefits to women of a "room of their own," few young women remained interested in applying to women's colleges.

Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to this latest wave of coeducation. Case studies written expressly for this volume include many types of women's colleges-Catholic and secular; Seven Sisters and less prestigious; private and state; liberal arts and more applied; northern, southern, and western; urban and rural; independent and coordinated with a coeducational institution. They demonstrate the principal ways women's colleges have adapted to the new coeducational era: some have been taken over or closed, but most have changed by admitting men and thereby becoming coeducational, or by offering new programs to different populations. Some women's colleges, mostly those that are in cities, connected to other colleges, and prestigious with a high endowment, still enjoy success.

Despite their dramatic drop in numbers, from 250 to fewer than 60 today, women's colleges are still important, editors Miller-Bernal and Poulson argue. With their commitment to enhancing women's lives, women's colleges and formerly women's colleges can serve as models of egalitarian coeducation.


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Date de parution 22 janvier 2007
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Challengedbycoeducation Women’s Colleges Since the 1960s
Edited by Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan L. Poulson
Chaenged by Coeducatîon
Women’s CoLLeges Since the 1960s
Chaenged by Coeducatîon
Women’s CoLLeges Since the 1960s
Edited by Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan L. Poulson
Vanderbilt University Press / Nasville
© 2006 Vanderbilt University Press All rigts reserved First Edition 2006
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Printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in te United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Callenged by coeducation : women’s colleges since te 1960s / [edited by] Leslie Miller-Bernal, Susan L. Poulson.—1st ed.  p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8265-1542-8 (clot : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8265-1543-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women’s colleges—History. 2. Women—Education (Higer)—History. I. Poulson, Susan L., 1959-II. Miller-Bernal, Leslie, 1946-LC1567.C483 2006 378.008209—dc22  2006010321
To Lisa Mars Ryerson, a courageous college president.
–Leslie Miller-Bernal
To my parents, Ellen Moore Poulson and Norval Poulson, wit love and gratitude.
–Susan L. Poulson
Contents
 Preface ix PARTï  The Pace o Women’s Coeges în Hîgher Educatîon 1Introduction: Canges in te Status and  Functions of Women’s Colleges over Time 1  Leslie Miller-Bernal PARTïï Case Studîes o Women’s Coeges That  Have Become Coeducatîona or Have Cosed 225Vassar College: A Seven Sisters College Cooses Coeducation  Clyde Griffen and Elizabet A. Daniels 3Coeducation at Weaton College:  From Conscious Coeducation to Distinctive Coeducation? 48  Susan F. Semel and Alan R. Sadovnik 4A Catolic Women’s College Absorbed by a University:  he Case of Mundelein College 76  Prudence Moylan
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Texas Woman’s University: hreats to Institutional Autonomy and Conflict over te Admission of Men 108 Claire L. Salin Wells College: he Transition to Coeducation Begins 145 Leslie Miller-Bernal
III PART Case Studîes o Women’s Coeges That Have Remaîned Sînge Sex
Revitalizing te Mission of a Women’s College: Mills College in Oakland, California 175 Marianne Seldon
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8Simmons College: Meeting te Needs of Women Workers 208  Susan L. Poulson 9234Spelman College: A Place All heir Own  Frances D. Graam and Susan L. Poulson 10College of Notre Dame: he Oldest Catolic  Women’s College Canges wit te Times 257  Doroty Brown and Eileen O’Dea, SSND
PARTIV Case Studîes o AIîated Women’s Coeges 11Rekindling a Legacy:  Barnard College Remains a Women’s College 289  Andrea Walton
12Cambridge University’s Two Oldest  Women’s Colleges, Girton and Newnam 328  Leslie Miller-Bernal
PARTV Concusîons 13he State of Women’s Colleges Today 375  Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan L. Poulson
1 APPENDIX Statement o Sîx Past Presîdents o Formery Women’s Coeges, 2000 Exceptional Coed Colleges: A New Model for Gender Equality 389
APPENDIX2 List of Women’s Colleges in Spring 2005 and Some Summary Caracteristics 394
Contributors 397
Index 401
Preace
Women’s colleges are an endangered species. Over te past forty years, tree-quarters of tem ave admitted men, merged wit anoter institution, or closed. From about 230 women’s colleges in 1960, tere were fewer tan 60 in 2005. Most of tose tat remain struggle to survive, creating educational pro-grams for new populations—part-time, adult, or graduate students—tereby becoming fundamentally different institutions tan tey were in te 1950s. Wile researcers ave studied te early istory of women’s colleges and teir importance for women’s access to iger education, little as been written about teir recent transformations. Callenged by Coeducationexplores te recent istory of women’s colleges in te age of coeducation. It includes institutions tat represent te variety among women’s colleges: two Seven Sister colleges, tree secular independent colleges, two Catolic colleges, a coordinate college, a vocationally based college, a state institution, a istorically black college, and, for comparative purposes, two colleges in England’s Cambridge University. he book’s five sections partly reflect te fundamental outcomes for women’s colleges since te 1960s: a brief istory of women’s colleges; a review of institutions tat ave adopted coedu-cation or ave closed; studies of several women’s colleges tat are still single sex; a look at some coordinate women’s colleges; and a conclusion tat reflects upon te struggles women’s colleges face eiter in maintaining teir single-sex status or in striving for gender equity wile adopting coeducation.  his decline in women’s colleges mirrors a similar, even more drastic cange in men’s colleges—tey ave almost disappeared. During te 1960s and 1970s most men’s colleges opened teir doors to women for financial and social rea-sons. Since te large majority of male students preferred coeducation, men’s colleges ad to admit women in order to stay competitive. Many colleges found tat coeducation enabled tem to increase teir revenue by expanding teir enrollment and at te same time to become more academically competitive. Yet as we note in our previous work,Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in For-merly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950–2000,te admission of women to tese institutions did not necessarily bring equity. Many campuses made little preparation for te presence of women, and many of te early women students ad to maneuver in a difficult gender environment.  One migt tink tat te transitions to coeducation at men’s and women’s
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