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Direct linkTurpin, Andrea L. – History of Education Quarterly, 2010
Historical scholarship has traditionally focused on the commonalities uniting Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon, the two leading antebellum women's educational reformers in New England. This essay shifts that focus by contrasting their educational philosophies and exploring the implications their differences had for the development of American…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Females, Educational History, Womens Education
Peer reviewedGallin, Alice – Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, 1999
Presents an address to the annual meeting of Neylan colleges, Catholic colleges founded by religious women, that retain some relationship to the religious community. Drawing on survey data, the presentation briefly chronicles the origins and history of the colleges, changes in them since the 1960s, and salient issues that have arisen in recent…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Educational History, Higher Education
Saslaw, Rita S. – 1983
Based on information on women who attended Oberlin College between 1833 and 1860, a sketch is drawn on the lives of American females during that period. Attention is directed to such demographic factors as the area of the country from which they entered the Oberlin College, the number of years they remained at the college, their mobility,…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational History, Family Life, Females
Download full textGallin, Alice, Ed. – Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, 1985
The mission of Catholic colleges and universities and their responses to change are discussed in four articles. Historical information on Catholic women's colleges and the current picture are reviewed by Abigail McCarthy in "A Luminous Minority." The revision of the curriculum at Fordham College is described by James N. Loughran in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Role
Kodera, T. James – 1981
The history of the study of religion at Wellesley College from its founding in 1875 until 1980 is considered. Initially, faculty were sought who possessed expressed Christian character and were able to instruct in the bible, which was a study requirement until 1968. The predominantly Protestant-Christian orientation of the religion department…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Christianity, Church Related Colleges, College Role
Stringer, Patricia A., Ed.; Thompson, Irene, Ed. – 1982
Views of the deep-rooted assumptions and myths surrounding the role of women in academic institutions of the South are presented in scholarly articles, experience-based essays, and poems. Among the themes that are explored are the history of women's involvement in higher education, women's studies, women's status, racial stereotypes, alienation,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Stereotypes, Black Students, Black Teachers
