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Preserving and Strengthening Together: Collective Strategies of U.S. Women's College Presidents
Ist Teil von
History of education quarterly, 2008-11, Vol.48 (4), p.565-589
Ort / Verlag
Malden, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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. women's colleges in new ways as they sought to preserve and strengthen their individual institutions and to secure a future for women's colleges as an institutional type.