Publication subTitle :The Struggle for Coeducation
Publication series :The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education
Author: Malkiel Nancy Weiss
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication year: 2016
E-ISBN: 9781400882885
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691172996
Subject: C91 Sociology;G64 Higher Education
Keyword: 社会学,教育立法与教育政策,教育,教育学史、教育思想史,高等教育,文化、科学、教育、体育
Language: ENG
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Description
As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, “Keep the damned women out.” Focusing on the complexities of institutional decision making, this book tells the story of this momentous era in higher education—revealing how coeducation was achieved not by organized efforts of women activists, but through strategic decisions made by powerful men.
In America, Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth began to admit women; in Britain, several of the men’s colleges at Cambridge and Oxford did the same. What prompted such fundamental change? How was coeducation accomplished in the face of such strong opposition? How well was it implemented? Nancy Weiss Malkiel explains that elite institutions embarked on coeducation not as a moral imperative but as a self-interested means of maintaining a first-rate applicant pool. She explores the challenges of planning for the academic and non-academic lives of newly admitted women, and shows how, with the exception of Mary Ingraham Bunting at Radcliffe, every decision maker leading the charge for coeducation was male.
Drawing on unprecedented archival research, “Keep the Damn
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