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Geiger, Roger L. – Princeton University Press, 2019
American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides the most complete and in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, College Role, Educational Change
Albisetti, James C.; Goodman, Joyce; Rogers, Rebecca – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This long-awaited synthesis approaches the past three centuries with an eye to highlighting the importance of significant schools, as well as important women educators in the emergence of secondary education for girls. At the same time, each contributor pays careful attention to the specific political, cultural, and socio-economic factors that…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Females, Democracy, Educational History
Bressler, Marvin; And Others – 1973
This document presents the product of more than 2 years of study by the Commission on the Future of the College of Princeton University. It attempts to convey something of the Commission's respect for the strengths of the undergraduate programs and to offer realistic suggestions about how it might be made even stronger. Following the letter of…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Planning, Faculty
Leahy, William P. – 1991
This is an examination of how Catholics adapted to the United States and how American culture affected Catholicism during the twentieth century based on an investigation of major developments in Catholic higher education since World War I with emphasis on colleges and universities conducted by the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. The opening chapter…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Catholic Schools, Catholics, Church Related Colleges
Bashaw, Carolyn Terry – 1999
This study examines the accomplishments of four women who served as deans of women, a once-crucial but now defunct role, in U.S. coeducational institutions in the South. Their contributions are assessed by examining five areas: institutions, impediments, initiatives, infrastructure, and intimacy. Surveying the careers of Sarah Gibson Blanding,…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Deans of Students, Employed Women, Higher Education
Swoboda, Marian J., Ed.; Roberts, Audrey J., Ed. – 1980
This anthology of essays, impressions, and sketches attempts to reassess the role of women in the development of public higher education in Wisconsin, especially in the setting of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. The essays provide a female perspective from the post Civil War days to today. Some essays focus on the beginnings of the…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Females, Feminism
Matthews, Brian – Open University Press, 2005
This is the first book to link the issues of emotional literacy, equity and social justice, and the education of the whole child, thus providing the social and political context for emotional literacy. In connecting emotional literacy and equity with the structure of schooling, it establishes that co-educational schools can contribute to enabling…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Equal Education, Coeducation, Single Sex Schools
Lasser, Carol, Ed. – 1987
Twelve essays by contemporary scholars explore, from a historical perspective, the meaning of collegiate coeducation in the United States, including its value, utility, significance, and successes and failures in supplying equal education for both sexes. An introductory first section contains the essay "Coeducation in a Gender-Stratified…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Coeducation, Educational History, Equal Education
Stiehm, Judith Hicks – 1981
The planning and problems associated with the 1975 Congressional mandate calling for the integration of women into the U.S. Air Force Academy are described. The book examines how Air Force planners made decisions and whether their decisions were effective. Beliefs that were previously held inviolable--that upper body strength is important, that…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Coeducation, College Planning, Females
Oberdorfer, Don – 1995
This volume offers an illustrated history of the 250-year history of Princeton University (New Jersey). The book's first seven chapters focus on the pivotal moments of Princeton's first 200 years: its founding based in the Great Awakening, a religious movement of the time; the construction and history of Nassau Hall; the era of President…
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Presidents, Educational History, Graduate Study
Kaufman, Polly Welts, Ed. – 1991
This collection of essays describes women's ongoing search for equity at Brown University, Rhode Island, since their first entrance there in 1891. After a preface by Joan W. Scott and an introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman, the volume contains the following 10 essays: "The Woman's Club Movement Creates and Defines the Women's College" by…
Descriptors: Alumni, Careers, Coeducation, Cultural Context
Pieschel, Bridget Smith; Pieschel, Stephen Robert – 1984
The history of the Mississippi University for Women (MUW) from 1884 to 1984 is described. MUW, the first state-supported college for women is now coeducational, but adheres to its original mission of providing educational opportunity for women. Educational, administrative, and architectural developments are traced, with attention to leaders who…
Descriptors: Alumni, Coeducation, College Administration, College Environment
Anderson, Richard E. – 1977
During the past decade many single-sex colleges became coeducational and many religious colleges became secular. What have been the effects of these strategic institutional changes? Examined are the environmental, educational, and financial consequences at 40 private colleges that changed their policies. The evidence shows that broader missions do…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Coeducation, College Choice, Educational Change
Gillett, Margaret – 1981
Nineteenth-century assumptions about the nature of women, her educability, her role in society, and debates about coeducation are examined in this record of the efforts of the first women students to gain entrance in McGill University in Canada. The introduction offers historical background, ideas of women, and the opening of higher education to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Coeducation, College Admission, College Students
Orbell, S. F. W.; And Others – 1973
This document is a collection of three papers originally prepared as part of a series of public lectures presented by the Faculty of Education at the University of Rhodesia. Each paper stresses the vital need to examine assumptions made about the pupil in school to see whether provisions made for him are really in accordance with his present and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Coeducation, Cognitive Development
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