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Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition). Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth and Nancy Gray. "Women's colleges must be an option." The Roanoke Times, September 14, 2006. Rosenberg, Rosalind.
The following is a list of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States, listed in the order that mixed-sex students were admitted to degree-granting college-level courses. Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school -level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses ...
The 18th and 19th centuries saw significant growth in the establishment of girls' schools and women's colleges, particularly in Europe and North America. Legal reforms began to play a crucial role in shaping women's education, with laws being passed in many countries to make education accessible and compulsory for girls.
It is the oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college (Salem College), and the oldest female institution in the Southern United States. [citation needed] Female seminaries were a cultural phenomenon across the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
Only unmarried women could be teachers. Many early women's colleges began as female seminaries and were responsible for producing an important corps of educators." [1] Schools are listed chronologically by the date on which they opened their doors to students. Current women's colleges are listed in bold text.
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.
The Women's College Coalition (WCC) was founded in 1979 and describes itself as an "association of women's colleges and universities – public and private, independent and church-related, two- and four-year – in the United States and Canada whose primary mission is the education and advancement of women." [16]
"New study finds women’s colleges are better equipped to help their students." Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition). Rosenberg, Rosalind.