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A Consequence of Crisis: A Historical Policy Analysis Examining the Relationship between Economic and Military Crises and the Development and Effects of Early Federal Policy in Higher Education during the Twentieth Century, 1934 to 1963
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Gorgosz, Jon – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explores the effect of economic and military crises on federal policy growth in higher education from 1932 to 1963. By analyzing federal records, campus materials, newspapers and educational association journals, the papers demonstrates that economic crises led the federal government to institute decentralized state building efforts to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational History, Economic Climate
The Founding of the New Jersey College for Women: The Struggle for Women's Access during the Progressive Era (1870-1930)
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Shay, Patricia Dougher – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the founding of the New Jersey College for Women as an exemplary case that illustrates important social and political issues regarding women's access and acceptance to higher education during the Progressive Era. The New Jersey College for Women was founded as a public women's college that was affiliated with the state's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Coeducation, Political Issues
Distinguishing a Western Women's College: A History of the Curriculum at Colorado Women's College, 1909-1967
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Thompson, Jennifer Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Colorado Women's College (CWC), a private, Baptist college for women in Denver, Colorado, first welcomed students to its campus in 1909, making it one of only a handful of women's colleges in the American West, where coeducation predominated. This dissertation describes and interprets the curriculum offered at CWC in the period from 1909 to 1967.…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Oral History, Two Year Colleges, Females