The position of Dean of Women was created in response to novel exigencies rising from women's acceptance to coeducational institutions of higher learning in the late nineteenth century. While these early women administrators had a profound impact on women's higher education in the United States, their work has received relatively little attention.…

Women are taught from a very early age that their major role to be played in society is that of wife and mother. This lesson appears to be reinforced throughout a girl's life, especially if she is educated in coeducational institutions. In such sexually mixed institutions, girls are not only in competition for men, but they are in competition with…

Higher education must find ways to synthesize male and female values. (HS)

Author feels educators should work more out of a sense of purpose and less purely for survival alone. (GB)

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)

This article looks at three women who were among Hegel's first followers in America, paying particular attention to their views on matters related to women and the public/private distinction: Susan E. Blow (1843-1916), Anna C. Brackett (1836-1911), and Marietta Kies (1853-1899). By appropriating a number of his ideas in order to make Hegelianism…

Examined whether feminist professors of psychology at women's colleges derived more job satisfaction than feminist professors at coed colleges. Surveys and interviews indicated that feminist professors were generally satisfied with their pedagogical situations and generally dedicated to and successful at teaching. Institutional affiliation…

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)

Uses the conversion of McGill University to a coeducational institution in 1884 as a case study of the role of women in universities. Gillett discusses the educational implications of traditional and feminist views of women in terms of female stereotypes, perceptions of female educability, and the role of women in society. (AM)

The emergence of homosexuality as a professedly viable alternative is seen as a byproduct of the basic problem at Sarah Lawrence. That is the conflict between the women's movement on campus and the administration's efforts to proceed to full coeducation. (LBH)

This anthology of essays, impressions, and sketches attempts to reassess the role of women in the development of public higher education in Wisconsin, especially in the setting of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. The essays provide a female perspective from the post Civil War days to today. Some essays focus on the beginnings of 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)

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)

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)

The only woman in the first graduating class of the world's first school of journalism at the University of Missouri, Mary Paxton Keeley was offered a position as a special reporter for the "Kansas City Post" in 1910. As was typical for female journalists at the time, most of Paxton's assignments during her 15 months with the…