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Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1984). online; Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Campus life : undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present (1987) Nash, Margaret A. Women's Education in the United States 1780–1840 (2005) Norton, Mary Beth.
Naylor, Natalie A. "The ante-bellum college movement: A reappraisal of Tewksbury's founding of American colleges and universities." History of Education Quarterly 13.3 (1973): 261–274. Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750–1800. (Greenwood, 1985) online; Ruben, Julie.
Women's colleges in the United States are private single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 26 active women's colleges in the United States in 2024, down from a peak of 281 such colleges in the 1960s. [1] [2]
Story at a glance College enrollment numbers, long in decline, may be hitting a cliff next year. After peaking in 2010, undergraduate enrollment dropped from roughly 18.1 million students that ...
The university's total enrollment reached 2,995 in fall 2024, a 3.5% increase from the 2,894 students in fall 2023. Alcorn State's growth this year follows a decrease of 1.3% in enrollment from ...
Segregation laws in the United States prior to Brown v. Board of Education. For much of its history, education in the United States was segregated (or even only available) based upon race. Early integrated schools such as the Noyes Academy, founded in 1835, in Canaan, New Hampshire, often were met with fierce local opposition.
Not even education can close the pay gap that persists between women and men, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. Whether women earn a post-secondary certificate or graduate from a ...
1885: The Woman's College of Baltimore (now Goucher College) was a sister school to Johns Hopkins University. It became Goucher in 1910 and coeducational in 1986. 1886: H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College at Tulane University was the first coordinate women's college within an American university. It closed in 2006; a lawsuit by descendants of ...