Tough questions facing women's colleges

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (151) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Sara Kratzok
Keyword(s):  
Women's Colleges

Liberals, Lesbians, or Loners? Stereotypes of Students Attending Women's Colleges

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Cook ◽  
Kirnel Daniel ◽  
Deborah S. Willis ◽  
Carrie M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Women's Colleges

Comparison of Women's and Coeducational College Classrooms: I. Course Assignments

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 1035-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashton D. Trice
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Women's Colleges ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
College Classrooms ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
Institutional Selectivity ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Introductory Classes

This study examined the number of assignments in 502 course syllabi collected from 18 women's colleges and 18 matched coeducational colleges. The number of assignments was significantly higher at women's colleges, at colleges with lower selectivity for admissions, and in introductory classes. Significant differences among the four disciplines examined (psychology, mathematics, English, and art history) were found. Three of the factors (gender, discipline, and level) interacted. The most prominent difference was that, in introductory courses with quantitative and scientific content (psychology and mathematics), women's colleges required many more assignments than coeducational colleges. The effect of institutional selectivity was smaller than these three effects and appeared to be additive rather than interactive. The number of term-long assignments was not significantly different. Women's colleges, however, had more short-term assignments and tests than coeducational institutions. The results are related to the historic mission of inclusion of nontraditional students at women's colleges.

Catholic Women's Colleges and the War

1945 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
Eleanora A. Baer ◽  
Salvatore G. Dimichael
Keyword(s):  
Women's Colleges

Sweeping Out Home Economics: Curriculum Reform at Connecticut College for Women, 1952–1962

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-388
Author(s):  
Paul Philip Marthers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Women's Colleges ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Women's College ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Twentieth Century America

At the moment of its founding in 1911, Connecticut College for Women exhibited a curricular tension between an emphasis on the liberal arts, which mirrored the elite men's and women's colleges of the day, and vocational aspects, which made it a different type of women's college, one designed to prepare women for the kind of lives they would lead in twentieth-century America. Connecticut was a women's college that simultaneously embraced the established brand of education practiced by its prestigious Seven Sister neighbors and forged its own path by integrating elements of home economics, municipal housekeeping, and professional/clerical training into its academic program. For forty years Connecticut College for Women achieved a balance between those two opposing poles of its curriculum.

The State of Women’s Colleges Today

2007 ◽  
pp. 375-388
Author(s):  
Leslie Miller-Bernal ◽  
Susan L. Poulson
Keyword(s):  
Women's Colleges ◽  
The State
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