One reaction to Title IX's basic requirement for equal opportunity for physical activity and sports, regardless of sex, was the widespread reevaluation of separate programs in physical education, intramurals, and athletics. To insure that all individuals would have equal opportunity in a given physical activity program, many administrators ordered…

A report is given of Project Alpine, two summer pilot programs in outdoor education sponsored by the Mesa Public Schools of Arizona. The report outlines the duties of camp personnel and includes an instruction sheet used by camp counselors. Various activities held for the campers (boys and girls from both upper elementary and secondary grades) are…

This report reviews the objectives for coed housing, relates previous findings, and examines several hypotheses: (1) that coed units will have more activities and programs; (2) that the activities will be more widely varied; (3) that coed residents report more contact with faculty, more interaction with the opposite sex, more academically oriented…

The role of a women's college is addressed in terms of institutional environment, student motivation, career aspiration, noncurricular activities, counseling and other student services, and breaking sex stereotyping of men as well as women. (LBH)

The application of Title IX and the HEW regulation to intercollegiate sports is described, and the relationships among Title IX, the equal protection doctrine, and the proposed equal rights amendment to the Constitution are assessed. (LBH)

A pilot program at Okalossa-Walton Junior College (Niceville, Florida) sought to increase the number of women in all its vocational areas. Brochures, posters and slide-tape presentations provided information for targeted groups in identified locations. One year after recruitment efforts began, enrollment went from two to twenty in drafting the…

Vassar's new president believes the college can change the face of American coeducation, but there will first have to be changes made within Vassar itself. Her social outlook and administrative abilities are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Describes conversion to a coeducational program of a residential school for delinquent girls. Discusses problems of staff attitudes, residents' reactions, destructiveness, sexual acting-out and drug use in the 70-student, private correctional center. (BF)

This article presents a discussion on the possible benefits of merging physical education programs for men and women in colleges. (JD)

Girls who reject boy-girl social relations as the central concern of adolescence are best served by girls' schools where they can develop a complex sense of self including both risk taking and caring qualities. A study confirming that single sex schools promote girls' intellectual and leadership development is cited. (MJL)

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…

The mathematics achievement and mathematics attitudes of eighth-grade female students attending independent coeducational middle schools were compared with those of students in independent all-girls middle schools. Participants were 467 8th-grade girls from 10 all girls middle schools, 208 girls from 10 independent coeducational middle schools,…

History of change from innovative Catholic girls' college to newly laicized and coeducational college with survival problems. (Editor/IR)

A study determined how physical education programs at two-year colleges fit into an overall institutional philosophy with regard to courses and requirements, grades, hours of instruction, and teaching load. (JN)

The early history of physical education for women in the northeastern section of the United States is presented. Short biographies of notable contributors, both men and women, to the expansion of physical education programs, first in womens colleges, and later in coeducational institutions, are presented. (JN)