Coeducation, 1923-present
Series — Box: 5
Identifier: rg02.08
Scope and Contents note
These materials date from 1923 the present and consist of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, press releases, announcements, speeches, questionnaires, correspondence, studies and reports concerning the advantages and disadvantages of coed and single sex education. Many of the articles concern colleges for women. There is also a collection of Selected News Clips May-August, 1994
compiled by the Women's College Coalition that concern women's colleges, single-sex education, and the plight of girls in the classroom.
Dates
- 1923-present
Conditions Governing Access note
Unrestricted.
Extent
1 boxes
Language of Materials
From the Record Group: English
Arrangement note
Arranged chronologically.
- Ad-Hoc Committee on Communications and Decision-Making: Final Report
- NY Times: [n.t.] "Is College education for women a factor...?"
- Atlantic Monthly: "The Question of the Women's Colleges"
- Christian Science Monitor: "Women's Colleges Look Ahead"
- NY Times: "Education in Review: SurveyIndicates Difficulty..."
- Daily News: "Mt. Holyoke, Smith Cool to Idea of Coeds"
- NY Herald Tribune: "Dean at Michigan U. Defends Both Coed..."
- NY Times: "Young Women Ready for College Enrollment..."
- Malden (Mass.) News: "Women's Colleges in America"
- Richmond (Va.) News-Leader: "Liberal Arts Colleges Teach 'How to Think'"
- Christian Science Monitor: "Educating Our Daughters"
- Holyoke Transcript - Telegram: "Where Women's Colleges Lead"
- Boston Sunday Globe: "Women's College Graduates Seen in Great Demand"
- Richard Glenn Gettell (MHC President): What Price Coeducation?" (address: The College Club, Boston)
- David Riesman: "Dilemmas of the Educated Woman" (Commencement address, MHC)
- David B. Truman (MHC President): The Single Sex College - In Transition?" (speech - American Alumni Council Special Conference
- MHC Press release: Report issued by Fact-Finding Committee on Coeducation
- Charge to the Faculty Study Committee on the Principles of the College
- Report - Delphi Study on "The Future of Women's Colleges in the United States,"
- Report - Ad Hoc Committee on the Principles of the College
- MHC press release: MHC Trustees vote to remain a college for women
- Mount Holyoke Now: "Board of Trustees Unanimous Vote: Education for Women"
- Polly Longsworth, "Women at the Five Colleges" (supp. to MH Alum. Qtly. et al.)
- MH Alumnae Quarterly:"MH Alumnae Quarterly asks what is this thing called coeducation?"
- David Truman (MHC president): "A Tough Question: What Must Women's Education Be?" (convocation speech, pub. in MH Alum. Qtly.)
- MHC press release: MHC president David Truman speech at MH Club of Rhode Island
- Why A College for Women (brochure)
- MHC press release: Brochure for high school students, "Why A College For Women"
- National Center for Education Statistics - Bulletin: "Profile of Women's Colleges: Enrollment Statistics"
- Educational Testing Service: "Information Regarding Status in 1972 of Colleges Which Were Women's Colleges in 1960"
- Marjorie Childers and Penny Martin (MHC faculty): Conference Report on Equal Opportunity for Women
Repository Details
Part of the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Repository
Contact:
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8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
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50 College Street
8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
413-538-3079
archives@mtholyoke.edu
