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Tidball, M. Elizabeth – Change, 1974
Successful women professionals have two commonits; they are graduates of women's colleges and unmarried. The author concludes that coeducational colleges are preoccupied with the needs of their men students and have virtually ignored those of the women. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Research, Employed Women, Females

Conway, Jill – Change, 1978
No matter what social goals or federal laws exist, it will be a long time before the informal social environment in America's male-dominated colleges and universities will serve women students as well as men, suggests the president of Smith College. Until then "for women only" institutions are needed. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Equal Education, Females, Feminism

Baker, Liva – Change, 1977
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)
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Role, Educational Responsibility, Equal Education

Griffin, Gail B. – Change, 1984
Quality education for women on an equal basis to that of men had its initial inception in the American West. When Oberlin College admitted women to full status in 1833, the movement had begun. Coeducation and why it was a Western phenomenon is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Females, Feminism

Baker, Liva – Change, 1978
The establishment of Kirkland College as the first independent women's college founded in the East since 1926 is reviewed with focus on its merger in 1978 into its parent institution, Hamilton College. Financial problems are cited and extreme differences in campus outlook are discussed. (LBH)
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Environment, Higher Education, Liberal Arts

Simmons, Adele – Change, 1977
Princeton's women students have adapted to a world of highly competitive males but a need has been found to provide services to help them in an atmosphere and society where male values predominate. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Change, Coeducation, Females

Anderson, Richard E. – Change, 1977
Data from a survey of 40 colleges that were religious and/or single-sex institutions in the 1960's indicate that tradeoffs must be made when such colleges change their admissions policy for the sake of increased enrollments. It is suggested that these efforts dilute and draw off the traditional institutional strengths, and that the federal…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Church Related Colleges, Coeducation, Declining Enrollment