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Direct linkBiemiller, Lawrence – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Armed with data and projections about budgets and future enrollments, Wilson College, in Pennsylvania, considers a slew of changes, including men. Among other changes, the board approved cutting tuition by $5,000, starting a high-profile loan-buyback program, creating new offerings in the health sciences and other career-oriented disciplines, and…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Single Sex Colleges, Educational Change, Tuition
Download full textBaker, Kerrie Q.; Boland, Kathleen; Nowik, Christine M. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2012
A positive classroom climate is essential to the success of students with disabilities in higher education. In a study of 268 students and 76 faculty members at a small liberal arts women's college in eastern Pennsylvania, participants responded to statements about students with disabilities. Findings indicate that faculty and students perceive…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Liberal Arts, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
Cook-Sather, Alison; Cohen, Jody; Alter, Zanny – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2010
In this article we present two programs we have developed at Bryn Mawr College designed to effect socially just change on our campus and beyond. Both programs create forums for dialogue across differently positioned community members and ensure that students assume leadership roles in these efforts. In our discussion we describe the programs,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Social Justice, College Students, Social Change
McGonigal, Kathryn; Galliher, John F. – American Sociologist, 2008
Sociologist Mabel Agnes Elliott was elected the fourth president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1956-1957 and was the first woman to hold this position. She was an anti-war activist, a feminist and a creative and diligent writer. Yet she experienced many challenges. The Federal Bureau of Investigation kept an active file on…
Descriptors: Females, Sociology, Social Scientists, Biographies
Peer reviewedStuder-Ellis, Erich M. – Social Forces, 1995
Examination of foundings of four-year women's colleges in three states, 1855-1968, reveals that institutional forces (presence of elite women's colleges, development of Catholic women's colleges, and enactment of the suffrage amendment) increased the founding rate, but rising organizational density later decreased the rate. Argues that…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Environment, Competition, Educational Development
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Conferences (Gatherings), Mothers
