This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men's colleges and men to women's colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as…

Since the 1960s the higher educational system in the United States has steadily lost its single-sex colleges; and as of 2008 only 51 women's and four men's institutions remain (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2008). Many of the previous single-sex schools have admitted members of the opposite sex, giving in to the national trend of…

Feelings of closeness to professors of 201 students were studied at a women's college, two coed colleges, and a university. Overall, students felt closer to female professors. Students at one coed college felt the greatest closeness to professors of either gender. (SLD)

Transcripts from a four-part National Public Radio "Options in Education" series are presented in this publication. The first program examines student cheating at colleges. Students and faculty discuss methods of cheating, reasons for cheating, student attitudes toward cheating, specific instances of cheating, and provide insights into why…

Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and a survey of education progress from 1900 to 1910. Subsequent chapters cover higher education, education legislation, recent progress in city schools, U.S. library extension programs, current education topics across education sectors and jurisdictions, industrial-education…

In Volume I, the Commissioner of Education introduces topics to be covered in the report. Chapter 1 covers current education topics, including work of boards and commissions, education associations, student aid, education standardization, public school teacher training, teacher salaries and pensions, tenure, international relations education,…

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…