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.…

This article describes the hardships of rural life encountered and witnessed by the students at the Ahfad University for Women as they participate in the university's Rural Extension Program which is required of all fourth-year students. The program involves traveling in groups to impoverished communities across Sudan to share their knowledge,…

My dissertation examines the effectiveness of three policy choices in meeting socio-economic goals. The first analyzes the impact of public health education and poverty relief on child mortality in the early twentieth century, when infant and child mortality rates in the United States were startlingly high. During the 1920s, the rates dropped…

The Biology department at Spelman, a historically black women's college has undertaken a major curriculum revision in the last few years. A primary goal of this revision is to increase the breadth of topics in biology classes. Historically, classes in the areas of ecology and evolution have been underrepresented whereas Spelman has always offered…

Stimulating the interest of students in biological sciences necessitates the use of new teaching methods and motivating approaches. The idea of the self-expression assignment (SEA) has evolved from the prevalent environment at the College for Women of Kuwait University (Safat, State of Kuwait), a newly established college where the number of…

At the turn of the century approximately a thousand white Southern women braved the consternation of friends and sometimes family, and traveled hundreds of miles to attend the best Northern women's colleges for an education unavailable to them in the South. For many, the experience was revolutionary: they developed self-confidence, independence,…

The recent announcement that Randolph-Macon Woman's College will admit male students has triggered yet another round in the continuing debate over women's colleges. At Randolph-Macon itself, the news was met with the usual mix of public displays: As students and alumnae protested with signs reading "Coed is a four-letter word," administrators and…

Women's colleges in the 1970s and 1980s faced highly uncertain futures. Soaring popularity of coeducation left them with serious enrollment downturns, and challenges from proposed equal rights legislation threatened to render illegal their single-sex admissions policies. These perilous external conditions drew together the presidents of U.S.…

This article examines the network of women's colleges which emerged in Ireland in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to women's exclusion from the realm of the university and their desire to participate in higher education. These colleges, run largely along denominational lines, were situated in the major cities with the…

Asserts that a career center at a women's college is by definition a women's center and must deal with all aspects of life planning for women. Describes Wellesley's career center's model for career education and development which might be replicated in coeducational institutions, especially those with women's centers. (NB)

Considers relationship between women's colleges and women's movement. Notes that, although private legal scholars did not perceive women's colleges within reach of proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), popular assumption was that, if passed, ERA would have eliminated women's colleges. Adds that women's colleges were not major players in…

Offers account of practical and political aspects of maintaining counterpoint, mini-war against coeducation that captured minds and emotions of people and media around the world. Describes story of Mills College and events that followed college's aborted decision to become coeducational. (NB)

Looks at coeducation decisions made by Smith and Amherst Colleges in 1970s, Smith reaffirming its commitment to separate education and Amherst changing from all-male to coeducational college. Describes contrasting bases for the decisions made by the two colleges. (NB)

Presents interview with Mary Maples Dunn, president of traditionally female Smith College, who looks at future of women's colleges and notes that as number of women's colleges declines, clearer does mission become to offer distinct choice in higher education and to maintain alternative in society that prides itself on diversity and choice. (NB)

Women's colleges, which have generally considered sports an integral part of academic life, now face pressures to compete with coed institutions at which sports have taken on a more competitive attitude. Many fear compromising their ideals if they endeavor to match the athletic programs of other institutions. (SLD)